https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/08/16/more-from-wapos-bombshell-feinstein-didnt-know-about-nsas-audit-of-privacy-violations/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 13:06:13 -0400<![CDATA[Ed hit the big points about WaPo&#8217;s scoop in his post this morning but I want to make sure people see this too. Arguably the biggest news from the story isn&#8217;t that the NSA broke the rules; when you&#8217;ve got thousands of analysts combing through billions of communications, you&#8217;re destined to have &#8220;incidents.&#8221; If &#8212; if &#8212; you&#8217;re okay with the a massive surveillance state, then to some extent you&#8217;re accepting this as the cost of doing business, just as people who prefer bigger police forces tacitly accept that more abuses, both intentional and negligent, will occur.]]>Fri, 16 Aug 2013 15:21:52 -0400<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2013/08/16/more-from-wapos-bombshell-feinstein-didnt-know-about-nsas-audit-of-privacy-violations-n208957