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The Latest Push to Extend Key US Spy Powers Is Still a Mess

Wired · Dell Cameron · last updated

A US surveillance program that lets the FBI view Americans’ communications without a warrant is up for renewal. A new bill aims to address mounting lawmaker concerns—with smoke and mirrors.

Leaders in the United States House of Representatives on Thursday released the text of a negotiated bill to reauthorize a US surveillance program that enables federal agents to read the communications of Americans without a warrant. The agreement—while appearing to contain a slew of new oversight provisions—leaves untouched the kind of warrantless search of Americans’ communications that a federal court ruled unconstitutional last year.

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