> he doesn't have the power to create a database listing all American citizens, let alone the citizens of foreign countries It's my understanding that the NSA

> he doesn't have the power to create a database listing all American citizens, let alone the citizens of foreign countries It's my understanding that the NSA did just that under Bush and Obama though. I might have only one side of the story, but in all countries where some part of the state surveillance apparatus was exposed, the law seems to be carefully crafted to look like it forbids mass surveillance while actually allowing the executive to implement it.