of course, there may have been attacks that would've happened, ,nd the fbi, and other agencies have been able to handle it. let me look at various levels here. first of all, there is the disclosed terrorists, those that have actually been caught in various kinds of plots over this period. i have a casebook that is now well into 800 pages online, case studies done by otter stewards that ohio state -- who are quite good at ohio state. 70h of these cases of 60 or individual cases that have come -- the terrorists perpetrated them, or they have been disrupted and brought to court during this proved to a time. when you look over all of these cases, they are pretty unimpressive. there are a few that may have led to something, but for the most part, what happens, the fbi gets wind of a plot being put into force, and has been able to disrupt it mostly by inserting an informant into the plot itself. the informant is not just looking but pretends to be a fellow terrorist. for example, one guy in baltimore a few years ago decided he wanted to be a jihadist, so he started to advertise on facebook for