The heuristic is that DoD doesn’t do counterterrorism. I don’t expect DoD to prevent terror attacks just like I don’t expect the FBI to blow up bunkers in Iran. We don’t need numbers to be able to confidently estimate that the number of Iranian bunkers blown up by the FBI is approximately zero.
Not if revealing success also reveals methodology and “trade” secrets.
Its perfectly reasonable to suppose undisclosed successes are imaginary as that is the overwhelming likelihood
What could these secrets be other than a completely illegal comprehensive web of domestic spy apparatus.
“We have a mole in X network that gave us details about the attack.” Would be the most obvious.
Isn't that what parallel construction is for?
The heuristic is that DoD doesn’t do counterterrorism. I don’t expect DoD to prevent terror attacks just like I don’t expect the FBI to blow up bunkers in Iran. We don’t need numbers to be able to confidently estimate that the number of Iranian bunkers blown up by the FBI is approximately zero.