“The U.S. Congress’s General Accounting Office is investigating claims that a scientific cover-up may have been perpetrated at the very heart of the missile defense program.

The program’s two prime contractors, the American aerospace firms TRW and Boeing, have been accused of manipulating data to hide the stark fact that their system cannot tell the difference between warheads and the decoys that accompany them. The controversy dates from the first flight test in 1997, which the Pentagon said was a complete success. Although an interceptor missile was launched in that trial, it made no attempt to hit the dummy warhead. Rather, the mission was a fly-by designed to test the computer algorithm that recognizes the target and the sensors on board the intercepting missile.” Tompaine.com

I’m waiting with bated breath for tonight’s sixth test of NMD over Kwajalein Atoll, which is supposed to demonstrate that the interceptor missile can tell the difference between the target warhead and several decoys. My prediction: the Pentagon will announce another total success. We may or may not be told that the interceptor had been programmed with the vector of the warhead it was supposed to destroy…