MR. RUSSERT: Before you go, Time magazine reports that members of Congress were targets of assassination attempts and that there were several multiple attacks that the FBI believed planned for Wednesday, for February 12th. Can you confirm that?
DR. RICE: Well, there has been a lot of chatter about the period of time, and there was some concern that the terrorists might try to use the end of the hajj in this way. But we are working to disrupt these terrorist networks every day. This is something that didn’t begin yesterday, and it’s not going to end just because the hajj is ending. This is the primary preoccupation of the United States government.