“…although terrorism had been NSA’s [National Security Agency’s] top priority since the August 1998 East Africa embassy bombings, the agency’s director, General Michael Hayden, later admitted [before the Joint Inquiry of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on October 17, 2002] that he had at least five other ‘number one priorities,’ and was unable to dedicate sufficient personnel and equipment resources to terrorism.”
– Matthew M. Aid, The Secret Sentry, Page 213