NSA policies are simply insane and/or lazily thought out. I mean we even learned a while ago that not using Facebook makes you "suspicious" - Seriously? Or maybe watching a certain type of Youtube videos.
My point is I wouldn't single out just Tor here. They probably have dozens of other such idiotic policies that lead to abuses and putting people on "lists" that then they can take revenge on, such as through adding them to no-fly lists and so on, with very little to no recourse for the people affected (if they even ever find out about if or why they're put there, since it all tends to be secret).
What happened to innocent until proven guilty? The NSA is simply out of control and needs to be reined in, otherwise expect abuses against people that haven't even heard of Tor.