It is official: the Washington Post finds a German citizen to tell the US that NSA spying is fine and dandy:

"Knabe said the consequences of the Stasi’s excesses were far more devastating than anything associated with the NSA. “They forget what it’s like to live in a dictatorship versus a democracy,” he said of people who say that the NSA has behaved like the Stasi. "  So no big deal then.