SEC Staffers Busy Watching Porn As Economy Imploded

Senior staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission were spending hours watching porn on government computers as the economy crashed.

The SEC’s inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.

The memo says 31 of those probes occurred in the 2 1/2 years since the financial system teetered and nearly crashed.

Just a couple of examples:

•A senior attorney at the SEC’s Washington headquarters spent up to eight hours a day looking at and downloading pornography. When he ran out of hard drive space, he burned the files to CDs or DVDs, which he kept in boxes around his office. He agreed to resign, an earlier watchdog report said.
•An accountant was blocked more than 16,000 times in a month from visiting websites classified as “Sex” or “Pornography.” Yet he still managed to amass a collection of “very graphic” material on his hard drive by using Google images to bypass the SEC’s internal filter, according to an earlier report from the inspector general. The accountant refused to testify in his defense and recieved a 14 day suspension.

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If they are deliberately instructed to let business run amok what else are they supposed to do with their time? Obviously they had no deadlines or projects to complete.

as usual...xCommander AWOL Bush and xVP Dickie 'Five Military Deferments' Cheney were the absolute exemplars of what it means to have Republicon Family Values.

So, do the right thing by these guys and put them in their cages

I was thinking . . . maybe the schmucks just had crappy security policies and got infested with malware/spyware that was causing shitloads of pop-ups (as an IT Administrator, I've seen infected PC's generate over 1,000 attempts per minute to access such sites), but now that I know the assholes were burning them to disks and trying to avoid filters . . . .

The Repub rule to never, ever, ever, let them see you regulate.