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DHS IG Audit of Customs and Border Protection Biometric Program

Review of CPB Actions Taken to Intercept Suspected Terrorists at U.S. Ports of Entry (PDF, 11 Pages), July 25, 2006.

  • “We reviewed the procedures employed by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to prevent known and suspected terrorists from entering the United States through the country’s 324 air, land, and sea Ports of Entry (POE)… When a watchlisted or targeted individual is encountered at a POE, CBP generates several reports summarizing the incident. Each of these reports provides a different level of detail, and is distributed to a different readership. It is unclear, however, how details of the encounter and the information obtained from the suspected terrorist are disseminated for analysis. This inconsistent reporting is preventing DHS from developing independent intelligence assessments and may be preventing important information from inclusion in national strategic intelligence analyses.”
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