I've never heard of the US trying to steal technology at a national level - it wouldn't even occur to them. Never heard of ECHELON [0] before? There even was a

I've never heard of the US trying to steal technology at a national level - it wouldn't even occur to them. Never heard of ECHELON [0] before? There even was a European Parliament Committee investigating ECHELON effectively stating that the U.S. used ECHELON to eavesdrop on private and commercial communication of befriended nations, thus that the NSA (responsible on the U.S. site for ECHELON) is performing industrial espionage. If the U.S. is doing that with their partners, you can bet on that they try to do that with RUS, CHN et. al. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON