Economy Tanked While Government Surfed Porn

unixan writes "In a report by the SEC Inspector General that smacks of fiddling while Rome burns, 33 recent ethics investigations all showed that the government employees responsible for keeping an eye on the economy were instead obsessed with surfing porn — while the economy was tipping over. One cited example: '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.'"

Comments

Re:And we...

[coolsnowmen]

Some of us do both. /. and porn that is.

Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y

[jbeach]

Yep - watching people screwing, while the people they are supposed to be watching are screwing the public. Which makes the SEC like the glory hole in Wall Street.

Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y

[Jeng]

I'm sure IT was well aware of the situation by the time the hard drive was full.

Who watches the watchers? Ceiling cat does.

Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y

[AtomicOrange]

Kind of like reading /. at work?

Fixed that for ya....

[StickyWidget]

"Economy Tanked while the Government Wanked."

~Sticky
//No Karma, cause I stoled it.

Re:Look Around You, Look Around You, Look Around Y

[silverglade00]

keeping abreast on technology news

I see what you did there...

Re:I'll bite - here's your explanation

[initdeep]

DEATH TO THE INFIDEL!!!!