US Bugging Europe?

I just checked the news again. If there had been no mention of this in The New York Times or no corroboration I was going to take the posts of today down except for this one and the last. The Times has reported on it. In addition a former NSA and CIA official said on one of the Sunday news shows that European citizens should look at what their own governments are doing before getting upset at the US. That's not a denial and is vaguely and indirectly confirmatory.