Posted on 03/04/2017 3:22:34 PM PST by HomerBohn
Investigation finds ‘egregious’ cases involving government workers watching 6 hours a day, child porn
(Free Beacon) – Hundreds of federal workers have been caught watching porn on the job, including viewing child pornography, according to a new investigation.
NBC News 4 in Washington, D.C., identified over 100 “egregious” cases during the past five years where federal employees watched porn for hours during the day or required an inspector general investigation into their porn habits at work. The report relied on records obtained through Freedom of Information Act from 12 separate government agencies.
“The cases include workers who admitted spending six hours a day surfing illicit images and videos and maintaining tens of thousands of adult images on their office desktops,” the report said.
The investigation revealed over 20 cases at the Justice Department during the past two years, and numerous cases at the Environmental Protection Agency. The report includes the notorious case of an EPA employee in the Office of Air and Radiation who, while earning a $120,000 salary, watched porn between two and six hours every day, masturbated at work, and received bonuses.
The employee said that “‘a lot’ of his time each workday is spent ‘organizing’ the pornography he downloaded into saved folders,” according to the records obtained by NBC News 4.
The report noted that although being caught watching porn “opens employees to possible disciplinary action,” including being fired, several agencies said penalties are “flexible” and can carry just a written reprimand.
The EPA employee was not fired and stayed on the payroll for years even though he had been banned from the building. He continued to receive his six-figure salary for two years after being caught, including a year of paid leave before he retired in April 2015.
“This is not just an isolated incident at one single agency,” said Rep. Mark Meadows (R., N.C.), who is pushing legislation for a zero tolerance policy toward viewing pornography on government computers. “We’re starting to find it across almost every agency.”
New cases uncovered by NBC News 4 included another EPA employee in San Francisco who watched porn at work an average of two hours a day, and an EPA contractor in North Carolina who viewed porn for three to four hours a day.
Workers at a Department of Transportation office in Washington, D.C., that was monitored for two months were found to be searching on government computers for “teen+underwear+blonde,” “teen+slut+tight+pants,” “orgy+prague+OR+Czech,” and “petite+blonde+teen.”
A Department of Justice worker in Tucson, Ariz., visited 2,500 adult websites and downloaded over 1,100 pornographic pictures at work, spending the “majority of his duty time viewing inappropriate adult websites.”
Another Justice employee in Dallas, Texas, watched porn between four and six hours every day at work and had “tens of thousands” of pornographic pictures on a work computer, “including some which might have been child pornography.”
Several other cases involved child pornography as well, including an FBI employee in Virginia who had explicit email exchanges with a ninth grader and admitted to “receiving, viewing, and saving approximately 50 images of suspected child pornography.”
The investigation covered the departments of Transportation, Justice, Interior, Labor, Commerce, Energy, and Health and Human Services, as well as the U.S. Postal Service, NASA, Export-Import Bank, the EPA, and the Social Security Administration.
Perhaps the most pressing need for the Trump DoJ- after it is cleaned up and out- is to go after porn and Paedophilia big time using all the LEAs. Success in that endeavour would go far to cleaning up all sorts of corruption because those engaged in P&P are mostly mixed up in all sorts of other stuff. It will certainly clean out much of the leftist infestation of the bureaucracy. If you can’t fire the rotten Civil Service people, put them in jail.
Many of the children in the real paedophilic porn are, in fact, slaves. They are fed enough to keep them “sexy” looking for pictures but they don’t get out and don’t go to school. Many of the missing children on the milk cartons are actually “employed” full time in show business. Child stealing is far more common even in the best countries and the best neighborhoods than one would suspect or care to know.
Well, there’s that. If they were watching anything else that would probably be a net benefit or at least a lesser liability. Porn as a normal diversion, however, violates basic natural law and predisposes one to go further into corruption. Non closeted homosexuality has the same effect. Paedophilia enters into both over time when the thrills need to be upgraded.
That's an interesting thing to get a bonus for. :^)
| 2354 Pornography consists in removing real or simulated sexual acts from the intimacy of the partners, in order to display them deliberately to third parties. It offends against chastity because it perverts the conjugal act, the intimate giving of spouses to each other. It does grave injury to the dignity of its participants (actors, vendors, the public), since each one becomes an object of base pleasure and illicit profit for others. It immerses all who are involved in the illusion of a fantasy world. It is a grave offense. Civil authorities should prevent the production and distribution of pornographic materials.
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“Free Beacon” I just came from the video where the guy shot 70 feral hogs in one night. I thought it said Free Bacon:)
Do these places have IT departments?
I cannot even see FR on my work computer.”
This government behavior would lead one to believe that the whole bureaucracy is open to the world’s hackers. If they do not block porn, they likely do not block ISIS, either.
Their answer: Say WHAT??!
Either there is a severe DC shakeup, or USA is dead. It is no longer a lawful nation.
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