"... Undermine our values ..." (No laughing back there)
Until our hero Snowden opened our eyes, the Five Eyes or Echelon group were leading the way in amoral activity and breaking the law.
No Government can be trusted, the only difference now is the cat is out of the bag and everyone but everyone now knows what they can and do daily.
How many of us remember the headlines when the GCHQ leaked the fact that they were listening to Diana, Princess of Wales' 1992, 20-minute cell phone conversation between her and childhood friend James Gilbey?
Spying on world communications was a British first of all world governments, not something we should be proud of.