LWW
04-24-2010, 11:24 AM
And it was selflessly done to help poor women overseas.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">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. ...
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 tha<span style='font-size: 14pt'>t he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women.</span> Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.
<span style='font-size: 17pt'>"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,"</span> investigators wrote in a memo. ...
Leslie Paige, a spokeswoman for the nonpartisan watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste, called the situation "inexcusable."
"What kind of oversight is there when they have to shift people from looking at grant fraud to watch for people looking at pornography?" she said. ...
The newly obtained documents provide fresh evidence that the problem wasn't just an embarrassment: It was expensive and often went undetected for long periods of time.
The names of all of the employees targeted in the pornography cases were redacted from the more than 120 pages of investigative documents released to The Times. Names were withheld because none of the employees was subject to criminal prosecution, recent civil court action or debarment.
The documents don't include cases that the foundation examined internally without the inspector general's involvement. ...
As for the unnamed "senior executive" who spent at least 331 days looking at pornography at work, investigators said his proclivity for pornography was common knowledge among several co-workers.
"At the same time, employees were generally reluctant to make any official report or complaint because the misconduct involved a senior staff member and employees feared that they would suffer in some form of complaining," the investigators later wrote in a summary of the case.
Another employee in a different case was caught with hundreds of pictures, videos and even PowerPoint slide shows containing pornography. Asked by an investigator whether he had completed any government work on a day when a significant amount of pornography was downloaded, the employee responded, "Um, I can't remember," according to records. ...</div></div>
>>>AT LEAST WE NOW KNOW WHY THEY BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING<<< (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/)
Under the evil Bush regime these poor women were left at risk, under dearest leader's progressive regime they are now safe.
LWW
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">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. ...
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 tha<span style='font-size: 14pt'>t he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women.</span> Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official's porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.
<span style='font-size: 17pt'>"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,"</span> investigators wrote in a memo. ...
Leslie Paige, a spokeswoman for the nonpartisan watchdog Citizens Against Government Waste, called the situation "inexcusable."
"What kind of oversight is there when they have to shift people from looking at grant fraud to watch for people looking at pornography?" she said. ...
The newly obtained documents provide fresh evidence that the problem wasn't just an embarrassment: It was expensive and often went undetected for long periods of time.
The names of all of the employees targeted in the pornography cases were redacted from the more than 120 pages of investigative documents released to The Times. Names were withheld because none of the employees was subject to criminal prosecution, recent civil court action or debarment.
The documents don't include cases that the foundation examined internally without the inspector general's involvement. ...
As for the unnamed "senior executive" who spent at least 331 days looking at pornography at work, investigators said his proclivity for pornography was common knowledge among several co-workers.
"At the same time, employees were generally reluctant to make any official report or complaint because the misconduct involved a senior staff member and employees feared that they would suffer in some form of complaining," the investigators later wrote in a summary of the case.
Another employee in a different case was caught with hundreds of pictures, videos and even PowerPoint slide shows containing pornography. Asked by an investigator whether he had completed any government work on a day when a significant amount of pornography was downloaded, the employee responded, "Um, I can't remember," according to records. ...</div></div>
>>>AT LEAST WE NOW KNOW WHY THEY BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING<<< (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-at-federal-agency/)
Under the evil Bush regime these poor women were left at risk, under dearest leader's progressive regime they are now safe.
LWW