the former number two man at the cia, michael morell is on that panel he joins us this morning. mr. morell i must say a lot of official washington was surprised when, number one, that the recommendations were unanimous and that you, as a long time user of information collected by the nsa said, yes, may be time to change a few things. tell us about your thinking. >> good morning, bob, thank you for inviting me. i think there's some very important context here that the american people need to understand. and there's two pieces to that context, i think. one is that there has not been a successful terrorist attack in the united states since 9/11. and there are a lot of reasons for that, there are a lot of organizations and lot of people who are responsible for that. the national security agency is one of those agencies. because of that those officers who work there are patriots we're going to continue to need them to do the work they do, because the threat continues to exist and quite frankly it's possible the threat could grow again, that's one very important piece of context that ameri

includes former counterterrorism advisor richard clark and former deputy director of the cia michael morell. they gave the president 46 recommendations, among them the nsa should no longer store americans' phone records. instead phone companies or a y records. the report also calls for limits to how much data the spy agency can collect and how long it can be stored. the white house will review the suggestions over the next few weeks. >> including sorting through which recommendations we will implement, which might require further study and which we will choose not to pursue. >> reporter: the president formed amount advisory group shortly after former nsa contractor edward snowden revealed how the agency tracked americans' phone and internet use. >> we need to make sure that we're not gathering intelligence solely because we can but because we must because we need it in order to achieve the objective of protecting the united states. >> reporter: the president is expected to announce the recommendations he will implement next month. ko im for cbs news, washington. >> the white house released

we'll talk to the former deputy director of the cia michael morell who was part of advisory flannel told time has come to do controls on the spy agency. then we'll continue a 65-year cbs news tradition,. >> we have brought in five cbs correspondents, men of great experience. >> the correspondent roundtable. >> i'm not doubting you experts. >> schieffer: today the correspondents are different, but conversation is about many of the same things. and on this last weekend before christmas we'll take a look at the year's best books and have a er

sever security adviser, michael morel, former deputy cia director, jeffrey stone, a university of chicagoaw professor, cass sunstein, a harvard law professor who once worked in the administration, and peter swire, who served on obama's national economic council. record and quite public in my concern over the actual independent of this group. i am one of the 47 technologist that wrote a letter to the president saying we need technological acumen on a technological review committee. unfortunately, that was ignored. i'm concerned that administrative division -- the administration officials comprise the entirety of this group. i do not see how you can do a truly independent review of surveillance when so many people are tied in. i think this is epitomized by the fact that this review group is housed under james clapper, under the very agency that it is supposed to be independently revealing. what you mean it is housed there? >> if you go to their website, you actually go to dni, you go to the intelligence ministry here in the united states. that is were you can get information about the group

bob schieffer's guests will include the cia actor director michael morell. >>> and now to obamacare. it still isn't acting as smoothly as they wanted it to do. monday is the deadline for signing up. >> for many the only real option appears to be a new regulation who, despite mr. obama's promises can sell. that's why they're up in arms. >> reporter: it's an attempt to solve the problem of millions of people like kathy wagner people who lost individual insurance policies despite the president's promise that everyone could keep their plan. she supported his plan but feels let down by the president. >> it's not what we hoped for. it's not what we were told. >> reporter: the new regulation let people with canceled insurance apply for what's called mandated insurance. you can get fit your insurance was canceled and you believe others are unaffordable. it will allow buyers to purchase low premium catastrophic insurance that wasn't available to them before. robert who represents most of the nation's health insurers says thousands needed to finance the system can simply escape the mandate. >>

. >> in terms of intelligence experience, michael morell as more than 30 years of experience. for my own self, i've worked in these issues for more than 15 years. we had two other very experienced law professors. the experience was there. in terms of the lack of independence, that was something people said before we wrote the rortd. when the report came out, people saw we took a hard look at a lot of different things. a lot of those who criticized us says this was independent. we've all been commended for that. >> how quickly do you think the white house is going to act on the review panel's -- i believe 46 recommendations? >> right. well, president obama has said that he's taking the work with him, the report with him to hawaii for vacation. doesn't sound like a great vacation. but he's planning to come back and in january he's going to be making a speech and coming to a set of decisions and announcements about what they're going to do. i think we'll see it in early, mid january from the president. >> the information that edward snowden released this year has undoubtedly turn

. >> reporter: michael morel said if snowden wants americans to decide, he is come pack and let a americanrd from the white house as well. >> he is charged with crimes. thank you, peter. >> as jamie mentioned coming up, the president and first lady share their annual christmas message and plus, from christmas joy to holiday nightmare, ups announces it will not be able to deliver the packages that were supposed to be under the tree this morning and tomorrow. we'll have a live report with what big brown said is an excuse. . >> merry christmas growth from the white house. this week president obama was joined by first lady mishil obama as they delivered the annual christmas message. >> hello, everybody and happy holidays. >> we know how busy it is. and we'll not take much of your time and we wanted to take a moment to wish you merry christmas from our family to our yours. this is a season for holiday tradition and show grat to youed to those we love and some of you might watch basketball and eat christmas cookies. >> and play golf. they thanked our men and women in uniforms for their service.

morell. >> garrett: former deputy cia director. >> and like michael hayden a former nsa and cia director not only joked they weren't joking, he should be hung from a tree by his neck. which conjurors images of lynching not a fair trial. i think guarantees that he would not be tortured setting the bar really low. i don't think he could get a fair trial here. i don't think he should have any trial because he's been granted asylum because he has a reasonable fear of political persecution predicated on the very espionage act charges with which he is faced paige you were charged under that act, it was then moved and all pled down to misdemeanor. do you believe edward snowden could get a fair trial and why not come here put the justice system, his actions, to the test in public court of law. >> no. not at all. stay in russia. ironically enough, history is a lesson. we went to visit edward snowden back in october presented him with the sam adams intelligence award. no, he have to escape the united states to keep his freedom. >> garrett: it's -- all of this is avoidable. the united states the bedroc

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