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 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.
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6 comments:
fire them all President Trump...
All under the command of obama and democrats. Never was covered by mainstream media. Question is was their any Russian porn? If so major problem
Fire and Convict all for embezzlement of Federal Funds since they were not working and falsely getting paid to perform government work. They would not be able to collect any government benefits.
If the IT people were smart enough this could be blocked and they would not gain access to these sites.
Wait.
"We the people", with ONE image of ANY child porn on our computer ---- just one--- and we are arrested (as publicly as possible, our picture is posted everywhere -- BEFORE a trial, too!) and humiliated.
BUT.....
if you work in the government, "flexibility" is the key and as long as you keep it under say, 5000 images and just 2 hours a day, well, there is a DIFFERENT standard for you.
Sounds like "Two Sets of Laws" to me......
and it is, by God.
Keep cheering!
The first thing that has to happen is to fire any supervisor who doesn't fire an employee for watching porn on the job,PERIOD. No such thing as flexibility for anyone.
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