No Need To Lie: Hiding The Truth About 'Star Wars'

"This certainly has the appearance of a well-orchestrated fraud," MIT physicist Theodore Postal, a critic of the ‘Star Wars’ missile defense program, told The Boston Globe last week. Postal was reacting to a just-released General Accounting Office report documenting how, in a 1997 test, missile defense contractors Boeing and TRW manipulated data to make a failure look like a success.
Also last week, the Union of Concerned Scientists released an analysis of a January 25 anti-missile test that defense contractor Raytheon said "demonstrated the capability" of sea-based missile defense systems. "This is clearly not true," concluded UCS analyst David Wright, who detailed the test’s many shortcomings.