The USA is <i>not</i> a police state. This is a catalog of tools with legitimate law enforcement and espionage uses, and I would hope that most intelligence services, militaries and national law enforcement agencies would have access to these, and better, tools. We have known that such devices exist <i>long</i> before Snowden, this catalog is nothing new.<p>Of course, understanding the motivation for their use, and oversight of the users is important, and I am in favour of making sure these tools are not abused. However to say that their mere existence implies a police state is laughable.