Broadcast live direct from our studios moscow this is the r. T. International and from thomas. The u. S. Intelligence chief is hesitant to fully relinquish the power to monitor americans phone calls and Text Messages hes putting early pressure on congress to reauthorize the National Security agencys Surveillance Program which is set to expire at the end of the year with more heres arties came up and. While the Trump White House as well as dan coats the outgoing director of National Intelligence are urging congress to renew the freedom act of 2015 and this ability of the National Security agency of the United States to conduct spying on individual citizens now essentially dan coats in his letter argued that even though the program is no longer in effect it. Necessary or could be necessary at some point to reinstate it and that it would be in the interest of the country overall for congress to renew the freedom act this is what dan coats said as Technology Changes adversaries trade craft