Former Acting CIA Director Says Officials Should Have ‘Sense of Urgency’ on Terrorism

Michael Morell said Americans need to hear what the administration is doing about the elevated terror threat.

Michael Morell, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 6, 2016. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

The former acting director of the CIA said there needs to be more “urgency” from elected officials to prevent a possible terrorist attack in the United States.

“There needs to be a sense of urgency about this, and I think the American public needs to understand what the threat is. That’s why we called for a public congressional hearing just on the terrorist threats to the homeland,” former acting CIA Director Michael Morell told CBS’s “Face The Nation” on Sunday, adding that Americans “need to hear what the administration is doing about this in a broad sense.”