they swamped the agency's inspector general and forced the internal watchdog to cut back on its primary mission of investigating grant fraud and recovering misspent tax dollars.This is the National Science Foundation we are talking about. Hasn't anyone there heard of blocks or filters. There cannot be any business reason to visit these sites, but according to one individual there are humanitarian reasons.
For instance, one senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.331 DAYS!?!? At least it appears he took some vacation time. Humanitarian work can be so stressful.
When finally caught, the NSF official retired. He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women. Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.
"He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that," investigators wrote in a memo.
If Congress and President Obama want to fix something, let them start with crap like this. If it were me and I was caught looking at porn while at work, I would be walked to the door without a word. And I should be. Zero tolerance.
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