Exactly. The cost of failure was deemed greater than the cost of success with attribution. It's just the way covert ops works.
If you asked the leaders of this op, in retrospect, if they were starting off from scratch, would they accept the result we saw where Irans nuclear enrichment capabilities were delayed long enough for more information about their secret work to be known with more certainty. . .all of them would take it in a heartbeat.
If you asked the leaders of this op, in retrospect, if they were starting off from scratch, would they accept the result we saw where Irans nuclear enrichment capabilities were delayed long enough for more information about their secret work to be known with more certainty. . .all of them would take it in a heartbeat.