WHAT HEELS: Porn Scandal Dogs SEC Watchdogs
The Washington Times finds another case of federal employees whose salaries are paid by taxpayers whiling away their work hours surfing for porn on the Internet:
The work computer of one regional supervisor for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed more than 1,800 attempts to look up pornography in a 17-day span: …
But he wasn't alone. More than two dozen SEC employees and contractors over roughly the past two years have faced internal investigations after they were caught viewing pornography on their government computers, according to records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and other public documents. …
In response to the open records request by The Washington Times, the inspector general's office provided more than 150 pages of records and transcripts on the investigations, but declined to identify the employees involved. The office noted that disclosure of the employees' names "could conceivably subject them to harassment and annoyance in the conduct of their official duties and private lives." …
While the inspector general recommended disciplinary action up to and including dismissal, the SEC ultimately gave the employee a reprimand instead, records show.
The SEC documents also show that the employees were not only stealing from taxpayers by getting paid for the hours they spent viewing porn instead of doing their jobs, but also for the time they spent figuring out how to circumvent Internet filters that blocked access to porn sites.
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