The following is from Judicial Watch.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is the latest federal agency implicated in a long-running government scandal: employees watching pornography on the job using taxpayer-funded devices.
According to a recent statement from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, several FEMA workers were fired for using government computers to access pornographic content—including, in at least one case, material described as racially charged and involving bestiality.
“These individuals had access to critical information and intelligence and were entrusted to safeguard Americans from emergencies—and instead they were consuming pornography,” said Noem.
An internal audit also found that nearly half of FEMA’s staff were regularly logging into social media platforms while on the job. One FEMA employee typed sexually explicit phrases into a chatbot on a government device to have them read back in an accent. Another individual, a contractor, accessed explicit sexual content 578 times in one month, using a government computer to view videos and chat with individuals presenting graphic material.
Judicial Watch reports that FEMA is just the latest in a string of federal agencies where employees have been caught engaging in similar misconduct.
In previous cases, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) employees spent hours watching pornography while the nation’s financial system collapsed in 2008. At the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), one veteran employee reportedly viewed six hours of porn daily and downloaded thousands of explicit files. Another EPA employee accessed child pornography using an official government email.
Similar issues were also uncovered at the Dept. of Agriculture and the National Science Foundation, according to internal audits cited by Judicial Watch.
More than a decade ago, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-North Carolina) introduced the Eliminating Pornography from Agencies Act to address what he called an “appalling” problem. The bill was never enacted, but it highlighted the scope of the issue and pushed some agencies to take action individually.
Despite public outrage and recurring audits, the problem has persisted across multiple federal agencies.
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Were they in a government office or were they doing so from home? It should be very easy for the IT depts for all of these agencies to set up procedures that block access to porn and send alerts to IT staff when porn is accessed.
Amazing and sick. My company’s Internet is locked down to protect our customers’ privacy. We employees cannot access this garbage if we wanted to. It frightens me to think that gov’t agencies, who have access to so much of our personal data, do not have the appropriate firewalls installed to prevent surfing to questionable websites.
So there you have the answer. Why we have such a decrepit society. When it’s spread into government agencies it just proves there are no morals within the federal government.
…..and why wasn’t the bill enacted and passed by congress and senate??? Maybe because the problem is there too?? They have a way of hiding all the corruption in the DC circle of clowns and crooks.