http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-sees-israel-tight-mideast-...

Countries we're neutral with (not allies per se, not at war with), such as China, routinely spy on the US Government and its corporations; ditto Russia (and that goes back a long ways). And of course China is America's largest trading partner, so we're quite friendly there.

Or for example, the UK spying on the Germans:

http://rt.com/news/uk-germany-wiretapping-criticism-201/

I would argue that all the major countries are attempting to spy on all the other major countries.

Perhaps none so successfully or belligerently as the US of course.

We've assumed people are spying on us as a matter of course, if we've paid attention to world history. The Soviets and Israel especially have had some especially ingenious means to spy on U.S. diplomatic communications.

http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/30/world/us-expanding-its-eff...

And the representatives would end up in jail/death row.

It would be absurdly naive to think they weren't.