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The NSA was created in the 1950s; It's nothing new. Our intelligence agencies do what they do very quietly and rarely admit their success in public. By their very nature, their entire purpose is to break the laws of other countries.
Right now there is a flap in the UK about them bugging meetings for the G8 Summit. You think? We use the diplomatic cover of our embassies across the world to tap other governments and their diplomatic missions - since the cold war. It's naive to think otherwise. All governments do this.
The guy who was the CIA agent in Argo wrote a book years ago about what the CIA really does. It's not James Bond, but it's a great read anyhow. In one story they rigged up a car with fake seats so they could video tape the Russian embassy in Turkey so they could bug it.
To date we have yet to have any proof that anything illegal was done. All of this is done with warrants, and all of this is aimed at people outside of the United States.
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