Pentagon: US opponents 'quite successfully taking our stuff'

Foreign adversaries are “quite successfully taking our stuff,” one of the Defense Department’s top counterintelligence officials acknowledged Wednesday.

“Are we winning in this challenge, in this competition for technological advantage?” William Stephens, the director of counterintelligence at the Pentagon’s Defense Security Service, said. “It’s not a very American thing to do to say that we’re not. It’s certainly not to say that we’re losing. But the challenge is clear. Our losses are quite profound.”