The warning was loud and clear on CBS Sunday morning: self-radicalized, "bedroom jihadists" are a significant threat to the security of the world.

Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell appeared on Face the Nation and told it like it is: there was a terrorist attack in the United States last week and the media didn't pay a lot of attention to that fact.

In fact, besides the hatchet attack in New York City by an Islamic terrorist, Morell points out the two attacks in Canada that also happened last week. He adds to that arrests made in Australia, Malaysia, France, and the United Kingdom over the last month of individuals planning attacks. Morell explains that these individuals are self-radicalized, inspired by ISIS's message, and pose "a very significant threat."

Morell said the only way to combat these terrorists are to be on the websites they are visiting and investigate them when threats of violence appear. He also suggests that "moderate Muslim clerics," along with U.S. allies, should help to fight the narrative that is attracting converts.

Morell directly blamed intelligence-leaker Edward Snowden for making the gathering of intel and law enforcement against these individuals more difficult.

CBS News correspondent Carissa Ward was also on hand to add her findings to the program. She has talked with converts to Islam and relayed that these self-radicalized individuals have accepted the narrative that they are the victims of a war the West is waging against Islam. They are "bedroom jihadists," not psychopathic killers, she explained. They are being recruited online, not through mosques, and by the appeal that they can be a hero who defends Islam and the persecution of innocent Muslims. Ward stresses that it is difficult for intelligence sectors to find these bedroom jihadists given the fact that their own families don't even know they've turned.

Ward explains that the invasions in Iraq and the drone strikes are feeding these terrorists a false sense of duty. "They believe, fundamentally, that the U.S. wants to obliterate Islam. That's their ideology," she said.

Guest host Charlie Rose asked Ward about the young female element joining ISIS. Ward explained the alarming phenomenon happening around the globe:

It's amazing to see how many young women are going over now to join ISIS or to marry jihadi fighters, and I think sometimes we forget in all of this that there is a certain 'romance' to the narrative of jihad as well.

You're a young teenage girl living your sort of middle-class, suburban life in the U.K. or the U.S. or Canada or wherever it may be, and suddenly, you're talking online to this 'brave, handsome young warrior' who's risking his life to fight jihad. There's a real romance to that narrative, especially if you're a teenage girl.