On the other hand the US agencies conducted a large scale supply campaign that included industrial espionage [1] spying on charities, the heads of friendly governments and its own citizens, breaking into data centres of legitamte business in friendly nations to install equipment and lying to their own government [2] and AFAIK nobody ever went to prison for any of it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

Why is it ok for one country to do this, but somehow outrageous that another country does it (and likely on a much less sophisticated scale)