The parliamentary intelligence and security committee, which scrutinises the work of the agencies, was sympathetic to the agencies' difficulties, he suggested.
While the Snowden leaks have focused attention on the close relationship with the US intelligence agencies, difficulties in the military partnership were highlighted earlier this month by former US defence secretary Robert Gates.
They said: "Recruitment agencies reported difficulty in filling semi-unskilled and unskilled positions and that reliance on migrant workers was increasing in a range of areas".
Why not, asks Alison Acosta Fraser of the Heritage Foundation, "consolidate administrative functions, such as accounting and human resources, across all state agencies?"The difficulty is that you can squeeze only so much before services are cut beyond what most people even in libertarian-inclined Colorado consider sensible.
But the agency had difficulty landing additional worldwide clients, falling short, for example, in a review for the Delta Air Lines account in 1999.
Whether the result of trumped-up charges, conflicting demands of intelligence agencies or difficulties of trying cases where evidence is withheld by governments looking to protect their sources and methods, numerous terrorism trials in the United States and Europe have similarly foundered over the years.
The program grew so quickly that the agency had difficulty keeping track of all of its detainees.
The 46-page report notes that the numbers of civilian casualties "could be much higher than recorded" because international agencies face difficulties in verifying incidents and accounting for those who died because of "lack of access to basic food, water or medical care".
A spate of food and product recalls beginning last year highlighted the agency's difficulties.
The agency's difficulties in getting hurricane assistance to small businesses and homeowners showed how years of cuts by the Bush administration had taken a toll.
