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Unless this story has terribly misled me, this data is collected in order to get a baseline of average passengers and what they have. If you've ever been coming back from overseas and been selected for a secondary inspection (where they go through all your bags even though you didn't declare anything) that's usually what this is.

Not having been at this duty station, here's a scenario where I could certainly see this happening:

Ag Inspectors come in Wed and discover that this survey data from Tuesday either was lost or wasn't completed. They call HQ and tell the sup. Sup tells them if they can't find it, to either survey additional people Wed and enter the data as Tuesday's or "Just make something up". Also sounds like a trainee who hadn't been to academy entered some data on the sheet too.

The perfect answer from the sup? No. A breach of National Security? No.

These aggies better hope the sup gets canned and they can get along with the new one, or I know 5 inspectors who will be assigned to the 0200-0900 six day a week airport shift, regardless of how many flights may actually be scheduled. Not a good move on their parts.

Calls placed to the Transportation Security Administration by The Associated Press were not immediately returned Saturday.

CBP PING, fellas, was that part great or what? Maybe they can call INS next...

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