So he's of the opinion that an enormous building can be rigged for impromptu demolition in a few hours? Unnoticed? From scratch? With no preparation?
Rumsfeld:
"Oh, no! Planes hit the towers! WTC 7 has sensitive documents and has been damaged! Quick, go get several hundred bombs, send your men down into the chaos, past hundreds of police and emergency workers, past the firemen, carrying those truckloads of bombs, get them inside the damaged WTC 7, and wire up the several hundred charges at key points, while the building is burning, so we can blow the building and scatter said documents out onto the street!"
"But Mr. Rumsfeld, why don't we just send five agents into the buildings, flashing badges, saying they need to haul out some documents because they pertain to national security? They can tote them out on hand carts in half an hour. It's not like having classified documents is a crime, right? We don't even have to keep it a secret. They can literally tell people at the scene, 'we're going in to haul out some classified documents,' and the people there would have said, 'okay.' So why blow up the building, at the risk of hundreds of lives and exposure that would ruin us forever?"
"THAT'S INSANE. We're losing time, Johnson!"