I would be very surprised if at least one foreign agency at least has not already hacked into both Verizon and AT&T ... one could argue that the US govt has at least been trying to do it (semi) legitimately just to keep up.
"Oh look, the bad guys are spying on our people, what can we do?"
"Stop them!"
"We can't!"
"Ok, let's spy on them too then!"
If this seems like a logical conversation then change "spy on" to "rape" and see if it still makes sense.