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So what was the Securities and Exchange Commission doing while the economy fell to pieces?

At least a few SEC employees were viewing pornography on their government-issued computers, according to media and government reports.

The Washington Times broke the story in February, but media blog Gawker reported Wednesday that it obtained 16 reports of investigations into SEC employees who spent as much as 1 1/2 hours a day accessing Internet sites such as skankwire.com, pokeoftheday.com and sexyavatars.com.

Gawker said that over the past two years, more than a dozen employees and contractors have tried to access porn on government computers at least 8,273 times.

According to a 2008 semiannual report to Congress from the SEC inspector general, the agency completed five porn-related investigations and inquiries between April and September of that year.

Report: SEC Supervisor Admitted Porn-Related Activities

In one case, the report said, an employee tried hundreds of times to access pornographic sites and was denied access. When he used a flash drive, he successfully bypassed the filter to visit a "significant number" of porn sites.

The employee also said he deliberately disabled a filter in Google to access inappropriate sites. After management informed him that he would lose his job, the employee resigned.

A similar SEC report for October 2008 to March 2009 said that a regional supervisor in Los Angeles accessed and attempted to access pornographic and sexually explicit Web sites up to twice a day from his SEC computer during work hours.

Over the course of 17 days, the report said, the supervisor received about 1,880 access denials for inappropriate Web sites. The supervisor also admitted to saving numerous pornographic images to his work hard drive and acknowledged that his porn-related activities may have interfered with his work. According to the SEC, the supervisor was reprimanded. …

Video: Florida State Senator Mike Bennett looking at porn on Senate floor

May 4th, 2010



No one will argue that sitting on the Senate floor during session can get a little boring, but looking at porn is probably not the best way to pass the time.

On Thursday morning, Sunshine State News captured exclusive video of Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton, looking at pornographic material on his state-issued computer on the Senate floor.

Ironically, as Bennett is viewing the material, you can hear a Senator Dan Gelber’s voice in the background debating a controversial abortion bill.

“I’m against this bill,” said Gelber, “because it disrespects too many women in the state of Florida.”

Bennett defended his actions, telling Sunshine State News it was an email sent to him by a woman “who happens to be a former court administrator.”

“I was just sitting there, bored as they were debating the abortion bill,” Bennett said.

“I opened it up and said holy [expletive]! What’s on my screen? and clicked away from it right away.”

This is serious: Investigation shows Pentagon employees involved in child porn putting us in danger

July 24th, 2010
By Kevin “Coach” Collins

A federal investigation has revealed that dozens of Pentagon employees have been buying and downloading child pornography using our computers while they were supposed to be working to keep us safe.    

This outrageous conduct has been discovered at the very heart of America’s defense centers in agencies that routinely handle extremely sensitive intelligence and defense materials and secrets.

Fortunately the number of government workers at the National Security Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency who are involved in this sickening behavior is small. Nevertheless, if just one of these bums was the subject of blackmail by one of our many enemies it could put every American in danger.

It’s not just since Obama came to power

The latest investigative report, dated 2009, comes from Defense Criminal Investigative Service. The dozens of pages of the report go back to 2002 and cite some cases that are still open.

The widest reaching investigation we know about so far was Operation Flicker initiated by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. Launched in 2006 it snagged about 5000 people who used the Internet to surf the world wide net to find and purchase the worst form of pornography.

Recent revelations tell us things were worse than we might have feared

The available reports point to the fact that  “a sizable number of cases… involved military personnel” including intelligence officials and defense contractors, all of whom were potential targets of enemy agents. Moreover, when a defense contractor working with the National Security Agency, was indicted in 2008, he fled the country and is believed to be now living in Libya. How much damage the information he sold Quadafi  to buy his sanctuary is indeed a chilling thought.

One case involving a unnamed offender described him as having downloaded 8400 child pornography pictures and 200 such movies. Upon his conviction this skunk was sentenced to five years in prison.

A bizarre side note

The Department of Labor’s Executive Order 13126 on the Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor, issued July 20, “prohibits federal agencies and their contractors from purchasing pornography from “Russia.”

In response to this order an international children’s advocate said the United States and Russia are the “world leaders” in child pornography production.

[quote]Video: Florida State Senator Mike Bennett looking at porn on Senate floor

May 4th, 2010