by Matt Agorist, The Free Thought Project:

(The Rundown Live) “The NSA is just DAYS from taking over the internet, and it’s not on the front page of any newspaper–because no one has noticed.”

Those were the words of former NSA contractor and domestic spying whistleblower Edward Snowden as Congress works to reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, more commonly known by the acronym FISA.

The House of Representatives recently passed an amendment to expand the program after the vote was deadlocked 212 to 212 last Thursday.