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Details on Earlier Gun Walking Program Emerge

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The Justice Department has been under fire for months for the so-called “Fast and Furious” gun-walking program. That’s the A-T-F operation that tried to build criminal cases against Mexican drug cartels and their weapons suppliers.

Now members of Congress are beginning to realize that Fast and Furious was not the first such scheme. And they’ve released emails demonstrating that high level officials in Washington, D.C. knew guns were being allowed into Mexico. Fronteras Changing America Desk correspondent Michel Marizco reports from Tucson on the original program.