[FoxNews] Newly reported details about a 52-minute sniper attack on a central Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, electrical substation last year are raising concerns from Capitol Hill and beyond, amid questions over whether it was the work of terrorists.
The April 16, 2013, attack had not been widely publicized until The Wall Street Journal reported new details in a story on Wednesday. The attack reportedly started when at least one person entered an underground vault to cut telephone cables, and attackers fired more than 100 shots into Pacific Gas & Electric's Metcalf transmission substation, knocking out 17 transformers. Electric officials were able to avert a blackout, but it took 27 days to repair the damage.
The FBI doesn't think the incident was a terror attack, an agency front man told the Journal. However,
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Jon Wellinghoff, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at the time, disagrees.
Wellinghoff went public with the story after briefing federal agencies, Congress and the White House, citing national security concerns and fear that electric-grid sites don't have adequate protection.
In addition, retired PG&E executive Mark Johnson said at an industry gathering a few months ago that he feared the attack was a dress rehearsal for a larger event, according to the Journal.
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In October, former CIA director Jim Woolsey said in a Commonwealth Club appearance that video from the incident showed a group of three or four men, in a "disciplined military fashion," had conducted the attacks. He provided details about how they systematically fired their weapons, and said they "quickly and professionally disposed of everything they had." 
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