For me (as an American) it's a moral question. If the principles of the country are so fundamental and so sacred, why would you hold others to a lower standard

For me (as an American) it's a moral question. If the principles of the country are so fundamental and so sacred, why would you hold others to a lower standard? Spying on Americans, that's clearly wrong! Imprisonment without a trail, no way! Except for foreigners, then it's legal, so it's fine... We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all me are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. What is unclear about that? I just don't understand that we live in a society where it is ok to 'deliver' freedom to others by force, but where we maintain that digging through every german's gmail account is 'legal' in the US, so it's ok. It's not only hypocritical, but short-sighted. Why would a French company use Gmail or Exchange Online if the US maintains that it and any subcontractor can read their mail at their leisure with no real consequences? Why would a Belgian visit the US if they could detain him because one of his facebook friends got in trouble with the police when he visited Florida?