The people who conducted this as a "secret" operation are either idiots, or no friends of the administration. This should have been quite public.
Yeah right. The article states that the nuclear material was flown out of Iraq. Look how the MSM and environazis piss and moan when radioactive anything is transported. If this was public info, we NEVER would have been able to transport it anywhere near the US.
The people who conduct such operations - military special forces, nuclear regulation/proliferation control - are not in the habit of making anything public. While not necessarily "secret", they do operate on a need-to-know basis.
Dealing with it, and making sure they can deal with it in the future, is far more important to them than telling details to whiny armchair pundits.