Thing is though, that doesn't matter. No country places any restrictions on whether the foreigners its spy services monitor are part of a foreign government or

Thing is though, that doesn't matter. No country places any restrictions on whether the foreigners its spy services monitor are part of a foreign government or not because it wouldn't make any sense. To use a pertinent example, none of the dozens of countries trying to intercept al-Qaeda communications cares which country they're in as long (in most cases) as they're not domestic. So what the NSA is doing to foreign citizens is no different to what every other country with the means does. My country will happily (and legally) spy on American citizens indiscriminately if it feels the need to, as will all of Europe.