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. Oversight mechanisms credited with curbing the FBI's prior abuses have also been dismantled under the current administration, even as the bureau has raided the homes of journalists and the FBI director has publicly threatened to investigate the president's perceived enemies. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that FBI agents had, in March, combed federal databases for material on Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson after her February article on the FBI director’s girlfriend. The agents recommended opening a preliminary investigation of Williamson on a stalking theory. The bureau has not said which databases were searched or whether any Section 702 material was among them. Following a Republican mutiny that sank the White House's push for a clean reauthorization last Friday, House leaders returned this week with a new bill that contains several provisions that, at first blush, appear to constrain the FBI’s ability to access the 702 database. However, the reforms are largely cosmetic, re-creating oversight functions that the administ