the constitutionality of the individual mandate in obama s affordable care act. we will speak with wendell potter, the former spokesperson for cigna and human entrance, now whistleblower. he is author of, deadly spin: an insurance company insider speaks out on how corporate pr is killing health care and deceiving americans. how safe are security scanners at airports? are the even effective? the future of pakistan and afghanistan. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. the supreme court continues to hold a historic session on the constitutionality of the affordable care act for the third and final day. on tuesday, justices heard arguments over an issue that heart of the health care law, the individual mandate requiring most people buy health insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty. we will have more on the hearings after headlines. details continue to emerge on the killing of the 17-year-old florida t
a year from the united states. the embassy attack was the work of the haqqani network, a terrorist group tied to the taliban. david martin has been speaking with his intelligence sources, and fills in the details. reporter: the insurgents who attacked the u.s. embassy in kabul last week were killed, but their cell phones left a trail. they had been used to call pakistani intelligence operatives before and during the assault. that s what lies behind the charges made by admiral mike mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, that the haqqani network is a veritable arm of pakistani intelligence. this was the attack on the u.s. embassy and nato s afghan headquarters that resulted in a 22-hour fire fight, with american troops pinned down on rooftops. 16 people were killed no americans, but the buildings in the embassy compound were damaged. according to u.s. officials, the haqqani network consists of several thousand fighters and operates with impunity from safe havens
this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. it turns out the terrorists who struck the u.s. embassy in afghanistan last week had cell phones on them and those phones are one of the reasons the united states is making the remarkable charge that pakistan was directly involved in both that attack and another in which more than 70 american soldiers were wounded. pakistan is supposed to be an ally in the war on terror an ally that gets about $2 billion a year year from the united states. the embassy attack was the work of the haqqani network, a terrorist group tied to the taliban. david martin has been speaking with his intelligence sources and fills in the details. reporter: the insurgents who attacked the u.s. embassy in kabul last week were killed, but their cell phones left a trail. they had been used to call pakistani intelligence operatives before and during the assault. that s what lies behind the charges made by admiral mike mullen, the cha
mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff that the haqqani network is a veritable arm of pakistani intelligence. this was the attack on the u.s. embassy and nato s afghan headquarters that resulted in a 22-hour fire fight with american troops pinned down on roof tops. 16 people were killed, no americans. but the buildings in the embassy compound were damaged. according to u.s. officials, the haqqani network consists of several thousand fighters and operates with impunity from safe havens inside pakistan, conducting cross-border raids into afghanistan and up into kabul. the pakistani spy agency used the haqqanis to sew violence so afghanistan cannot emerge as a strong and stable country allied with pakistan s arch enemy india. two days before the attack on the u.s. embassy, a large truck bomb went off at an american combat outpost, wounding 77 u.s. soldiers. two days before that, u.s. intelligence intercepted communications that the haqqani network was sending a large