"Face the Nation" transcript May 13: Same-sex marriage, bomb plot leak, Mother's Day panel

REPRESENTATIVE MIKE ROGERS: Hmm.

BOB SCHIEFFER: But what you're saying here is not that this is not something the Associated Press or some other news agency stumbled on. This was something that was deliberately leaked--

REPRESENTATIVE MIKE ROGERS: Well--

BOB SCHIEFFER: --by somebody in the administration and against the wishes of the CIA.

REPRESENTATIVE MIKE ROGERS: Well, it's clear that the information was leaked, and that information was presented at some point to the CIA. The CIA at that point tried to put that story back in the can for-- for security reasons. We had-- people's lives were at stake during this particular operation. And that's where it gets a little murky which is why I've ordered the review. This is not anything that should be used for a headline. Our national security should be exempt from any November at any time in any year. That operation shouldn't be dictated its conclusion based on any other agenda other than when it's fully completed for our national security and that's where we have to make sure.

BOB SCHIEFFER: Did-- did the administration play straight with you as the chairman of the Intelligence Committee?

REPRESENTATIVE MIKE ROGERS: Well, unfortunately, no. We--

BOB SCHIEFFER (voice overlapping): Really?

REPRESENTATIVE MIKE ROGERS: --the press knew, but normally-- let me give you an example, when the UBL Operation was well under way, I became chairman three days later, six months before the operation-- five months. We were brought in briefed, and we were briefed regularly on the all the operational developments right up to the phone call saying, "Hey, we're-- we're going." This was very different. So not only did they not notify Congress, which is, by the way, law, under the National Security Act of 1947. They're obligated to do it. And I argue for reasons this-- we're talking about, there's a reason you do that, so you can have that third-party independent eye on these kinds of operations because they are serious, dangerous and classified, and it was interesting that, even though, the press went to the agency and talked about this particular event, nobody thought at the White House it was important enough to come and live up to the constitutional and statutory rule to notify Congress. It was very concerning. And that's why there's-- there's just a lot of questions that have been raised in this. And, again, no national security operation ever should be used for a headline under any circumstances when you jeopardize the lives of--

BOB SCHIEFFER (voice overlapping): So what are you going to do?