World News Tonight (ABC) - 2006-06-07
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[0:06] Tonight, identities in danger. The
[0:08] information theft that may have exposed
[0:11] nearly every member of the military to
[0:13] identity fraud. And there are national
[0:16] security concern.
[0:18] >> [music]
[0:19] >> Our debtor nation, Americans on a credit
[0:21] card binge adding 10 billion dollars of
[0:24] debt to their credit cards in 1 month.
[0:28] Beyond steroids, another baseball player
[0:30] says his sport is riddled with
[0:32] performance-enhancing drugs with rampant
[0:35] use of a new substance that cannot be
[0:37] detected.
[0:38] And war of words, when a best-selling
[0:41] author accuses 9/11 widows of enjoying
[0:44] their husband's death, has a line been
[0:46] crossed?
[0:47] Or is now all fair in political warfare?
[0:52] >> [music]
[0:54] >> From ABC News, this is World News
[0:58] Tonight with Charles Gibson.
[1:01] Good evening. 5 weeks ago today, there
[1:03] was a seemingly routine household
[1:06] robbery in Montgomery County, Maryland
[1:07] that has turned out to be anything but
[1:10] routine.
[1:11] Someone walked off with computer disks
[1:13] that just happened to belong to the
[1:15] Department of Veteran Affairs and that
[1:17] just happened to contain, we now have
[1:19] learned, personal information on nearly
[1:22] every current and former member of the
[1:24] military. Every one of them could now be
[1:27] at risk for identity theft. ABC's Pierre
[1:30] Thomas is at FBI headquarters in
[1:32] Washington. Pierre?
[1:34] Charlie, tonight the entire military
[1:36] community wants to know how such an
[1:38] extraordinary mistake could happen.
[1:42] The US military, from privates to
[1:43] generals, is angry and scared. My wife
[1:47] has uh done a credit report actually
[1:49] this morning. I just got off the phone
[1:50] before