Thread: SEC's Porn Addiction

Politico

Top staffers at the Securities and Exchange Commission spent hours at work looking at pornography on government computers as the economy neared collapse in 2008, according to a memo from the SEC inspector general.



A memo written in response to an inquiry from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) shows that the SEC inspector general has conducted 33 probes examining employees viewing pornography at work.



The document says that the “most recent memorandum reports were issued on March 8, 2010� more than a month before the reports were obtained by the Associated Press, which first publicized them Friday.



Thirty-one of those probes have taken place since the economy nearly crashed in the fall of 2008. Of the 33 cases, three occurred in 2010, 10 in 2009, 16 in 2008, two in 2007 and one in 2005.



An SEC spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.



Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), who has been blasting the SEC for the timing of the charges recently brought against Goldman Sachs, lost no time denouncing the agency Friday. It is "disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation's economy on the brink of collapse."

lol, Nice!

[quote name='Bourne' date='24 April 2010 - 06:16 AM' timestamp='1272104190' post='143002']

What's irritating BG is that only one of those idiots has been terminated.

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Maybe the American people are better off when their bureaucrats spend more time watching porn than they do screwing us over. Of course, the SEC is supposed to be stopping people from screwing us over, so maybe it would be nice if they actually did their job.

[quote name='Inkslinger' date='24 April 2010 - 06:06 AM' timestamp='1272107169' post='143016']

Wow. I thought you were brighter than this BG.



I'll go with Barney Frank on this one and agree it was GOP de-regulation that led to this mess, not pudwhacking.

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The dems under Clinton repealed Glass Steagel which created the environment for the housing crisis, along with greenspan manipulating interest rates.



The Repubs also did bad shit or should have known better, dont get stuck on the left/right paradigm. They are all equally worthless.