Here is an example:

Who: NSA, What: Wind wheel for electricity generation, developed by Aloys Wobben, an engineer from East Frisia, Aim: Forwarding of technical details of Wobben's wind wheel to a US firm, Consequences: US firm patents the wind wheel before Wobben; (breach of patent rights)

Sounds exactly like "stealing trade secrets and giving them to a domestic company" to me.

Basically, the French government selectively leaked to a New Zealand journalist, to justify retaliation (tariffs at the EU level, which never materialized) against the US government for burning their Saudi deal.

There has never been any credible evidence that US intelligence agencies pass trade secrets to American companies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enercon#Patent_dispute "the patent in question was registered in 1991, three years before the alleged espionage event"

what does any of this mean ????

Is it all basically posturing and everyone is stealing secrets from everyone whenever anyone can ???

I mean... does this just mean that the US is the only country that actually sued anyone for it ? I mean... even though we do the same thing too as anon1385 pointed out?

To be fair, I do agree with you.