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

WIRED·Dell Cameron·about 1 month ago
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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. The bill aims to extend the embattled program—Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)—for an additional three years and is the product of a deal cut with House Republican leadership after House speaker Mike Johnson failed to secure a clean 18-month extension last week. The 702 program has become increasingly controversial due to revelations that federal agents have used it to spy on racial justice protesters, political donors, journalists, and sitting members of Congress.…

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