"Project Gunrunner" scandal

February 23, 2011 4:39 PM

"Project Gunrunner," an operation run by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, was designed to stop the flow of guns from the U.S. to Mexico's drug cartels, but had the opposite result. Investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports.

Gunrunning scandal uncovered at the ATF
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