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One senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington spent up to eight hours a day accessing Internet porn, according to the report, which has yet to be released. When he filled all the space on his government computer with pornographic images, he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices.

An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive.

Another SEC accountant used his SEC-issued computer to upload his own sexually explicit videos onto porn websites he joined.

And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.

In one case, the report noted, 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.

An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive.

And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.

EXCLUSIVE:

Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times.

The problems at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were so pervasive 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.

"To manage this dramatic increase without an increase in staff required us to significantly reduce our efforts to investigate grant fraud," the inspector general recently told Congress in a budget request. "We anticipate a significant decline in investigative recoveries and prosecutions in coming years as a direct result."

The budget request doesn't state the nature or number of the misconduct cases, but records obtained by The Times through the Freedom of Information Act laid bare the extent of the well-publicized porn problem inside the government-backed foundation.

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.

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.

mvscal wrote:

And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.

Assuming 20 working days, that would be about what? 800 times a day? Hijacked computer?

Smackie Chan wrote:

mvscal wrote:

And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.

Assuming 20 working days, that would be about what? 800 times a day? Hijacked computer?

Or it's a gov't laptop that he takes home from work and abuses when away from the office. I take mine home nearly every day, but use my own computer for the pron stuff.

Mikey wrote:I work at home on Fridays and have my personal laptop going for any non-work stuff, including T1B. Swivel to the left in my L shaped desk to my work laptop with two monitors going.

Mikey wrote:I work at home on Fridays and have my personal laptop going for any non-work stuff, including T1B. Swivel to the left in my L shaped desk to my work laptop with two monitors going.

One senior attorney at SEC headquarters

Smackie Chan wrote: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.

mvscal wrote:

And another SEC accountant attempted to access porn sites 16,000 times in a single month.

Assuming 20 working days, that would be about what? 800 times a day? Hijacked computer?

No...SEC Speed.