Time to Outsource Our Federal Porn Watching

25Apr/100

Time to Outsource Our Federal Porn Watching

The revelations regarding the SEC employees who surfed porn while the economy was collapsing has risen again, after some months, into the public eye. And now it turns out that the National Science Foundation is all tied up in internal investigations into the many employees who did the same, albeit in some cases for 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.

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.

Certainly it would be cheaper to outsource the viewing of pornography, and to let these well-paid and highly-trained public servants get on with . . . the other pressing tasks at hand.

Mostly unrelated: I can't wait for the Lifetime movie.

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