Posted on 02/24/2015 11:51:04 AM PST by jazusamo
An epidemic of federal employees watching pornography on government computers during work hours has gotten so out of control that legislation has been introduced in Congress to contain the embarrassing crisis.
Porn has for years been part of the job at some government agencies and in fact a number of federal audits have long documented the enraging details of how our tax dollars are being wasted. Judicial Watch has also reported on this for years, especially the porn crisis at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the agency charged with policing the nation’s financial industry. While the economy crumbled, the SEC was preoccupied with pornography. In fact, high-ranking managers at the agency regularly spent work hours gawking at pornography web sites on their government computers while the country’s financial system collapsed.
We’re talking dozens of SEC employees, including senior officers with lucrative six-figure salaries viewing explicit images on their agency computers during work hours. One senior attorney at the SEC headquarters in Washington D.C. spent up to eight hours a day accessing internet porn. When his government computer ran out of file space, he downloaded pornographic images on compact discs and stored them in boxes in his office. One agency accountant tried to access porn websites 16,000 times in one month and got busted with hundreds of pornographic images on her computer hard drive. Another SEC accountant used his government computer to upload his own sexually explicit videos onto various porn websites that he frequented during business hours.
Other agencies have also been embroiled in porn scandals evidently making legislation necessary. Among them is the National Science Foundation (NSF), which has been exposed by its inspector general for having employees spend significant portions of their workdays watching, downloading and e-mailing pornography on government computers without ever getting caught. This workday porn surfing costs American taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars, according to the agency watchdog, yet the NSF keeps receiving monstrous allocations from Congress every year. I 2014 the scandal-plagued agency tried to persuade Congress to approve an $83 million increase to its already excessive $7.2 billion annual budget.
This disgraceful government pornography epidemic might once and for all come under control thanks to a law ( Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act) introduced recently by a North Carolina Congressman, Mark Meadows. The measure would stop federal employees from accessing, watching or sharing pornography on government-issued computers and devices. How pathetic that this problem has been so pervasive in our taxpayer-funded agencies that a law must be passed to stop it. Why can’t these agencies police themselves and put an end to this shameful issue?
Congressman Meadows says in a statement that the inspiration for the bill came from yet another agency embroiled in a porn scandal, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Recent EPA Inspector General reports have uncovered multiple cases of employees working hard at watching porn. “One EPA employee was viewing as much as 6 hours of pornography a day in his office,” Meadows said. “The same federal employee was found to have downloaded as many as 7,000 pornographic files onto his government computer.” Another inspector general report, provided by the congressman on his website, details an employee who pleaded guilty to using his EPA email account to access an internet site with child pornography.
The congressman, who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations, says most agencies have rules banning porn yet it continues to take place. “There is absolutely no excuse for federal employees to be viewing and downloading pornographic materials on the taxpayers’ dime,” he said, adding that “it’s appalling that it requires an act of Congress to ensure that federal agencies block access to these sites.” Seldom mentioned is the cybersecurity threat created by accessing porn websites because the files are often ridden with viruses and malware, the congressman further points out.
I was thinking the same thing though I’m no tech.
It wouldn’t be a surprise if the high ups intentionally don’t block them because they know the employees don’t have even close to a full workload.
DANG!
Spot on, I’ll second that.
Not just at the federal level, but any “public employee”, down to the municipal level.
There is no need to have the gov’t and the union negotiating about how much the taxpayer is going to be robbed, at any level.
” There is no need to have the gov’t and the union negotiating about how much the taxpayer is going to be robbed, at any level.”
Amen, and
BTTT
Vanillapudding
” Cut off the internet, fire 90% of them and watch government effeciency improve.”
Wait a minute!
Fire 90% of them? No problem. Most Americans would never notice. Take the internet from the remaining 10%? Are you crazy ?? Then they would have nothing to do but F up the country!!
” If you can’t fire them, why not publicly humiliate the hell out of them...”
Can’t we beat them first? Then humiliate them, and then fire them ?
I see what you did there . . .
At the state gov-co agencies I worked at, porn was automatic firing unless your mother or father was upper management.
Most of the drones just streamed ESPN and music or slept on the back dock in open view.
Cyblock does a good job.
Yep, that’s better yet. :)
I worked for the State of Alaska from 1983-2006 and by the time we evolved from stand alone 286 floppy disc to internet connected, porno or any video sites were never allowed, including youtube and the like. News and opinion type stuff was fully accessible, including freerepublic.
Just trying to cover all the bases..
BTW...is not the viewing of sexually explicit material in the workplace a violation of sexual harassment policy?
I worked for a state university fior seven years. In that time, the only site that I ever found blocked was...Democratic Underground. *shrug*
What the hell?
Where my wife works she cannot even look at my work web site. She manages the hospital’s facebook page. And once a quarter, she has to get the IT group to allow her to get on the page because they reset the access.
Does the government even use access limiting software on their networks?
They are so 1999.
It wouldn’t be surprise if it is. Can you imagine a full blown feminazi finding a guy viewing porn in “her” workplace. LOL!
I hear you. Evidently many of these agencies don’t use it and the one that ticks me off the most is the EPA.
It seems they work overtime to screw up people lives and individual rights and watch a lot of porn while doing it.
Unfortunately, due to our marxist schools and universities, it is no longer possible to humiliate a person under the age of 50 merely by exposing their use of porn or their slacking off from work. Their self-esteem is too high.
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