[TheCondor]

That's a very favorable interpretation.

It looks an awful lot like a sampling designed to identify who the "enemies" are.

[justin66]

I was thinking it was a rare display of caution on the part of otherwise careless idiots. (or maybe we just got lucky) They aren't fucking with any of the universities responsible for managing national laboratories.

[pastel8739]

MIT has Lincoln Lab which, while not a DoE national lab, serves a pretty similar purpose for DoD.