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.
This administration is locked into a struggle to justify the entry into the war. We're not talking about "whiny armchair pundits". We're talking about political realities. The Vietnam War was not lost on the battlefield. It was lost in the political arena here is the U.S.