this is where they did all the nasty work. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. the justice department calls it one of the greatest threats it our country cyber crime. and just as the f.b.i. began looking into one of the biggest cyber thefts ever by a russian crime ring, we learned today of another break-in, this time involving a company that does background checks for federal employees and contractors. jeff pegues is in washington. he s been looking into all of this. jeff. reporter: scott, late this afternoon, the f.b.i. said that it is investigating a cyber attack on u.s. is, that is the company that does background checks on federal employees, meaning that the personal and financial information of thousands of government workers could now be at risk. the federal government has suspended most background checks until investigators can assess the damage. the revelation comes on the heels of a separate report
the whrubber room. this is where they did all the nasty work. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: good evening. the justice department calls it one of the greatest threats it our country cyber crime. and just as the f.b.i. began looking into one of the biggest cyber thefts ever by a russian crime ring, we learned today of another break-in, this time involving a company that does background checks for federal employees and contractors. jeff pegues is in washington. he s been looking into all of this. jeff. reporter: scott, late this afternoon, the f.b.i. said that it is investigating a cyber attack on u.s. is, that is the company that does background checks on federal employees, meaning that the personal and financial information of thousands of government workers could now be at risk. the federal government has suspended most background checks until investigators can assess the damage. the revelation comes on the heels
so the you have some instances like that. one woman in the confederacy who practiced charlottesville, but moe people who could claim to be doctors, acted as nurses, even though they may have been doing doctoring kinds of behaviors. host: do you know what the picture-on-the fronts of the book? guest: it is a hospital in washington, dc. i believe it s herwood hospital. and what you see there is one long ward, as so often the wards were. they were long, narrow rooms, stove in the middle. mosquito netting hanging up there. in washington, dc, they called that one part of time foggy bottom for good reason. it was very boggy, mosquitoey, and the men got relief with the mosquito netting, and you can see this is a series of pictures shot at christmastime. you don t see it in this picture. and there are women visiting and it was sort of a festive day. there s also although it doesn t you can barely see it in the front, that thing there, my editor thought it might be a water
host: it s wonderful to be here today. we have so much to talk about so before we get started i thought it would be useful to share with people our format which is that i want to start a little bit by asking you about how you came to write the book and the experience of being embedded in and step back and talk about the frame of the book and what you re covering here and get back to the particular assertions you make in the book. you talk about. the book is called forcing the spring with the subtitle inside the fight for marriage equality and to get inside this fight as you say to fully embedded yourself with the team the activists and the lawyers and plaintiffs who challengechallenged california s proposition 8 which was the course the constitutional amendment that took away the marriage rights for same-sex couples in california. for starters i m interested in how this came to pass. he said at the end of the book you got interested in the story because you interviewed te
little known group called donors trust, backed by the koch and others, it has also built a vast network of right-wing online media outlets in so-called free market think tanks. then, brave miss world. miss world 1998 is one of these girls. and miss world 1998 is ms. israel. little did anyone know that miss world had just been raped in italy. today she is become a global advocate for victims of sexual abuse. rape is so isolating because even if you tell people what happened, friends are free to mention it. we will speak with the director of great miss world, cecillia peck, daughter of the legendary actor gregory peck. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. united nations investigators are calling for syrian leaders suspected of murder and torture in the country s bloody crisis to face charges at the international criminal court. the latest findings by investigators probing the conflict ac