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Amputate Your Head · 04-23-2010, 07:13 AM

Article Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/...orn/index.html

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(CNN) -- As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees and contractors cruised porn sites and viewed sexually explicit pictures using government computers, according to an agency report obtained by CNN.

"During the past five years, the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time," said a summary of the investigation by the inspector general's office.

More than half of the workers made between $99,000 and $223,000. All the cases took place over the past five years.

The inspector general's report includes specific examples of misuse by employees.

A regional office staff accountant tried to access pornographic Web sites nearly 1,800 times, using her SEC laptop during a two-week period. She also had about 600 pornographic images saved on the hard drive of her laptop.

Separately, a senior attorney at SEC headquarters admitted to downloading pornography up to eight hours a day, according to the investigation.

"In fact, this attorney downloaded so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office," the inspector general's report said.

"It is nothing short of disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at pornography than taking action to help stave off the events that brought our nation's economy to the brink of collapse," said Rep. Darrell Issa. The Republican is a ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

"This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to give regulators like the SEC even more widespread authority," he said. "Inexplicably, rather than exercise its existing regulatory enforcement authority, SEC officials were preoccupied with other distractions."

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The next leap will be outright blaming the porn biz entirely for the economic clusterfuck.

Barefootsies · 04-23-2010, 07:24 AM

Yeah, was posted yesterday.

Porn, the ultimate scapegoat for society's ills.

Amputate Your Head · 04-23-2010, 07:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Yeah, was posted yesterday.

Porn, the ultimate scapegoat for society's ills.

Weird, the article is dated today (4/23/2010).

stephane76 · 04-23-2010, 07:33 AM

and the SEC doesn't have a IT dept to block adult sites?

Amputate Your Head · 04-23-2010, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by stephane76

and the SEC doesn't have a IT dept to block adult sites?

Seems like it would've been pretty easy huh.

04-23-2010, 07:13 AM	#1
Amputate Your Head There can be only one Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Somewhere else Posts: 39,075	SEC staffers watched porn as economy crashed Article Link: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/...orn/index.html Clipped: (CNN) -- As the country was sinking into its worst financial crisis in more than 70 years, Security and Exchange Commission employees and contractors cruised porn sites and viewed sexually explicit pictures using government computers, according to an agency report obtained by CNN. "During the past five years, the SEC OIG (Office of Inspector General) substantiated that 33 SEC employees and or contractors violated Commission rules and policies, as well as the government-wide Standards of Ethical Conduct, by viewing pornographic, sexually explicit or sexually suggestive images using government computer resources and official time," said a summary of the investigation by the inspector general's office. More than half of the workers made between $99,000 and $223,000. All the cases took place over the past five years. The inspector general's report includes specific examples of misuse by employees. A regional office staff accountant tried to access pornographic Web sites nearly 1,800 times, using her SEC laptop during a two-week period. She also had about 600 pornographic images saved on the hard drive of her laptop. Separately, a senior attorney at SEC headquarters admitted to downloading pornography up to eight hours a day, according to the investigation. "In fact, this attorney downloaded so much pornography to his government computer that he exhausted the available space on the computer hard drive and downloaded pornography to CDs or DVDs that he accumulated in boxes in his office," the inspector general's report said. "It is nothing short of disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at pornography than taking action to help stave off the events that brought our nation's economy to the brink of collapse," said Rep. Darrell Issa. The Republican is a ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. "This stunning report should make everyone question the wisdom of moving forward with plans to give regulators like the SEC even more widespread authority," he said. "Inexplicably, rather than exercise its existing regulatory enforcement authority, SEC officials were preoccupied with other distractions." __________________________________________________ The next leap will be outright blaming the porn biz entirely for the economic clusterfuck.

04-23-2010, 07:24 AM	#2
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04-23-2010, 07:33 AM	#4
stephane76 Best VOD Company Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: NC Posts: 3,887	and the SEC doesn't have a IT dept to block adult sites?