This 'spying' thing is so obviously cooked up. I don't understand why folks believe with such ease. It's easy to go and review the actual events which led up to current circumstances.
And it's easy to see the patterns of making things up to create fear in order to promote...wars, conflict, etc.
Friends of mine are wallowing in cognitive dissonance, believing simultaneously that we won't be attacked while we do the very same thing again and again.
What goes around comes around.
Cognitive dissonance needs scapegoats.
Spy gate is all about scapegoats.
It's a losing tactic in the long run.