It is conceivable, as one of his colleagues has suggested, that Theodore Postol could be more effective "if he did not eventually accuse just about everybody of fraud or malfeasance or stupidity." Over the past two years, for instance, the MIT professor of science, technology and national security policy has publicly accused the defense technology corporation TRW of perpetrating a hoax on the U.S. government. He has charged the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency (formerly known as the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization) with committing an "elaborate scientific and technical blunder," compounded by fraud and misconduct. He has charged the authors of a report investigating those alleged frauds-who include two staff scientists at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory-with committing scientific fraud themselves to cover up the frauds they were allegedly investigating. He has charged the Pentagon's Defense Security Service, in a letter to John Podesta, who was then President Clinton's chief of staff, with "Soviet thuggish-style conduct." And he has even accused MIT president Charles M. Vest of doing little or nothing to clarify the matter or investigate.

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