Regarding the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) warrantless wiretapping program, NSA chief “General [Michael] Hayden has observed [on January 23, 2006], ‘Had this program been in effect prior to 9/11, it is my professional judgment that we would have detected some of the 9/11 al Qaeda operatives in the United States and we would have identified them as such.’ ”
– Dick Cheney, In My Time, Page 349