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COMMENTS: Just Junk
"Uranium enrichment"…"Manhattan Project"…"nuclear materials"…these words all buzz with enough portent that when ABC's Pierre Thomas told us about the alleged theft and attempted sale of "highly classified equipment" it seems like a no-brainer that this is worthy of coverage. Upon inspection of the details, the arrest of a former contract worker at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory looks less of a big deal. "The buyer was an FBI agent. It was a sting," Thomas explained, and the defendant's lawyer called the equipment "junk." NBC's Pete Williams tried to defuse the story by repeating the assurance by the Department of Energy that "nuclear secrets were never in jeopardy." CBS made the correct call, mentioning the sting only in passing.
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