[Netz]

So? Been going on for decades. The French (and everybody else) do the same. Maybe the NSA has more resources and money so their scope is larger but this is all common practice with or without Snowden.
Funny, nobody ever questions Russian, Iranian, North Korean, Hizbollah or Saudi spying. Of course only two countries are ever scrutinized:
1) USA
2) Israel

[Gene Eric]

Blaming the NSA is no different than blaming the weapon. It’s idiotic.

[agere_contra]

Nobody questions Iranian, North Korean, Hizbollah or Saudi spying because they are the enemy.

France may be the least valuable ally of all time, but they have the right to expect better behavior from the US than from these notorious terrorist dogpatches.

Meanwhile Russia used to be 'the enemy'. However the NSA/Snowden scandal has played the largest part in rehabilitating their image.

Case in point: it's not Russia we worry about when we fire off an email.