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.
A real humanitarian, that guy. Another fellow 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.The employee also said that friends sent him the pornographic files, that he never planned on viewing them and that he never got around to deleting the files, a claim one official later called "simply not believable."
Us taxpayers fund this agency to the tune of $6 billion per year.
Update: Not really related, except by use of the word P0rn, which word I like to misspell and use as infrequently as possible because of the spam and weird key-word searches it attracts. Here's Hadley Arkes on "the ricochets of liberalism," in which he envisions being in Judge Bork's seat to answer some of Joe Biden's questions during that infamous hearing.
He talks about how we have managed to fall so far that someone could actually utter these words, with utterly un-self-aware righteousness:
"We will not stop until there is a policy of requiring condoms to be used in porn.”
From permitting condoms to requiring them. Why?
Rights simply proclaimed, with no moral ground that explains and entails their rightness, can readily be inverted into their opposites when the occasion arises. The only constant is that the Left will not notice. They will not notice the absence of that moral ground when they install new rights, and they will not notice when they repress the same rights to make the world a better, more liberal place.
