I do not want to see Eyepatch McCain succeed at anything. He's an angry little man and a piece of shit. If he took a big dose of whatever substances he's abusing and stepped in front of a bus on his way home, our country would be better off.
On my first full time job, I had to write a report of everything I did every day. On paper. With a pen.
Not a big deal. And yes, it sucked at the time.
The purpose was to bypass their "leadership". .gov leadership, in general, has not been stellar.
Its not such a hard request, even for the boots on the ground guys.
Example...
1) Chased illegal immigrants.
2) Caught illegal immigrant.
3) Processed illegal immigrant.
4) Fueled vehicle.
5)...
It's because she's a retard who doesn't know she's retarded. In fact, she thinks she the smartest asshole in the room because she makes her underlings kiss her ass all the time and will not tolerate criticism.
Brandon was the same way, and look how well he did.
XRF only analyzes the surface. Crooks know this and have been known to plate bars of base metal, drill and fill holes to steal some gold, etc.
Standard practice is to melt the bars and test a sample from molten metal, or melting the metal, casting into bars and drilling samples for analysis.
The bars are (should be) serial numbered.
A real audit would involve both making sure all the serial numbered bars are accounted for (including weights and density), as well as melting down a statistically significant representative sample of the bars and analyzing to verify their composition.