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Porn surfing rampant at U.S. science foundation
Washington Times ^
| 9/29/2009
| Jim McElhatton
Posted on 09/29/2009 7:57:08 AM PDT by markomalley
Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times.
The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.
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For instance, one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.
When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.
"He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that," investigators wrote in a memo.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; corruptdems; democrats; fraud; govwatch; moralabsolutes; napl; obamaregime; waste
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That's a new one. Surfing porn for humanitarian reasons...
To: markomalley
Are these the same liberals who fund every global warming scam that comes across their desks?
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posted on
09/29/2009 7:58:06 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(UN mixing democracies & dictators' is like mixing ice cream and shit-all of it stinks.(Steyn))
To: markomalley
"He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that," investigators wrote in a memo. Liberals have sooooo many excuses - for themselves...
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posted on
09/29/2009 7:59:25 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(UN mixing democracies & dictators' is like mixing ice cream and shit-all of it stinks.(Steyn))
To: markomalley
Science foundation
Geeks checking out broads what are the chances
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posted on
09/29/2009 7:59:47 AM PDT
by
Flavius
To: markomalley
A liberal sexually exploits third world girls, then says it’s for their own good.
Heck, sounds like all liberal aid to me.
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:00:49 AM PDT
by
chuck_the_tv_out
( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
To: markomalley
Disturbing, but hardly breaking news.
To: GOPJ
Are these the same liberals who fund every global warming scam that comes across their desks? Don't forget the part where they call us greedy, unfeeling and mean-spirited right wingers in between all that global warming funding.
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:01:50 AM PDT
by
Dahoser
(The missus and I joined the NRA. Who says Obama can't inspire conservatives?)
To: markomalley
When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000. "He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that," investigators wrote in a memo.
He is now the director of charitable overseas giving at the Clinton Foundation. < /sarc, but wouldn't be too surprising>
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:01:58 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
("I can run wild for six months ...after that, I have no expectation of success" - Admiral Obama-moto)
To: markomalley
Toss this bureaucratic nightmare along with all the other worthless central government organizations into the Potomac.
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:02:00 AM PDT
by
IbJensen
(If Catholic voters were true to their faith there would be no abortion and no President Obama.)
To: markomalley
Can’t scientists be horny too? ( sarc.)
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:02:29 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(The effective weapons against Fascism are ridicule, derision, and truth (Member NRA)
To: Candor7
Funny sarc.
But on a serious note, STAY OFF the taxpayers clock when getting your jollies Mr. Scientist!!
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:04:40 AM PDT
by
mentor2k
To: IbJensen
We need Robin Williams to redo the movie:
“Moscow on the Potomac.”
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:05:13 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: markomalley
Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times."We were just doing research for our grant application. Really!"
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:05:54 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: markomalley
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:08:25 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
To: markomalley
Government has no business funding anything with our money.
Charitable donations used to be the responsibility of the individual. Now that government has taken over, corruption has exploded, and government hands out grants for the dumbest things imaginable, like arts, so some lazy unwilling to work pot head can take a picture of a cross in a glass of urine and call it art.
To: Just another Joe
Heck, wouldn’t be surprised at them doing “research”. Seriously, at a place like the Kinsey sex research foundation, they could justify that they were doing research on sex matters.
To: markomalley
one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected Damn public servants with their private offices. In the private sector, your cube would be exposed and you couldn't get away with this crap!
To: markomalley
often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, The way things have been going lately (AGW, for example) it might be a better deal for the taxpayers to give them carte blanche on the porn -- and cut off their grant-funding authority! ;-)
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:17:51 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: Dahoser
Don't forget the part where they call us greedy, unfeeling and mean-spirited right wingers in between all that global warming funding. Here's an easy one for the FBI - these guys need to pay the taxpayers back - they weren't authorized to "help our the poor" sex workers in other countries...
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posted on
09/29/2009 8:18:27 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(FBI & MSM search for "racist using "N" word, while O'Keefe and Hannah expose real crimes.)
To: Nathan Zachary
I do differ here, I consider Basic Research to be a infrastructure investment, but in the Hard Sciences and Engineering. I do agree with you with the arts though.
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