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Washington post." one former high-ranking u.s. intelligence official was quoted in the article there. why is this happening? >> well, i think there has been a deterioration over time of the, of the ethic of keeping things secret by i think in this context, again, you have to look at this leak together with the others in the series over the past couple months that very much look like the administration touting its successes and for all we can tell, flame and stuxnet were successes. i understand that. but that doesn't justify in any way either the white house or anybody else for that matter reve...

Nbc's justice correspondent. executive privilege puts the president squarely in the middle of fast and furious or was he already there? >> no, i don't think he was. there was never any real allegation the president was involved in it. let's go back to what fast and furious was. >> please. >> this was the name of an atf operation intended to track the flow of guns bought illegally in the u.s. and smuggled into mexico. and agents were instructed to simply watch them. let the guns go in and help find out where they ended up. well over a thousand guns were allowed to walk. never were found. two sh...

>> this is a typical atf operation. it's taken a lot of months and a lot of hours to get to this point. >> because this bust has multiple locations, all of the raids will happen simultaneously. >> there's a chopper overhead. what's that for? >> there's multiple addresses we're hitting. that's another team. in the event there were anything to occur at any one of the locations, they can respond to it very quickly. >> is this unusual for this size operation to be executed in this many search and arrest warrants? >> it's really not. when you're facing a gang, you have to do it all. once you do one...

Officials at multiple federal agencies knew what was going on and did little to stop it. william la jeunesse is live -- along arizona's southern border. william? >> well, shepard, it was at this border check point about 70 miles south of tucson where ice agents stopped a load of southbound guns that belonged to an atf operation. a dispute ensued. then ice was told to back off and not interfere with fast and furious. >> there is going to be a disaster that's going to happen. someone is going to get killed. unfortunately, brian terry is that nightmare that came true. >> former tucson drug enforc...

That have caught fire recently. they sent a cautionary memo to all district. thankfully everybody is okay. a scary picture. bill: new questions about morning about the justice department's ergs version of events in fast and furious. a federal agent is speaking out and saying other agents new about the sting to allow weapons to flow to mexican drug cartels. william la jeunesse is live with more. >> reporter: bill, we are right on the border, this is a very remote crossing. it was here where on several occasions ice agents in that building stopped guns that were being smuggled southbound. well i...