Activists who robbed FBI office share little-known story

Decades after a group of activists broke into an FBI office in Pennsylvania and leaked damning documents to the press, some key operatives are stepping out of the shadows. 

Bonnie and John Raines, then a young married couple with three small children, were among those who risked it all to find proof of government surveillance on left wing groups. They found that, and plenty more -- including files about a plot to push Martin Luther King Jr. to suicide, and evidence of a "shadow" FBI run by then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. 

The couple were recently identified in a book about the 1971 heist by journalist Betty Medsger, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI. 

Medsger and the Raines join Jian to share the details of the break-in, how their leaks forced a major overhaul in the FBI, and what they think of Edward Snowden and more recent controversies surrounding privacy and surveillance. 

"When you have a law that is a crime, the only way of stopping that crime ... is to break that law," said John Raines, referring to racial segregation in the U.S. as an example. 

"There's a sharp difference between breaking a law and being a criminal."