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Foley Wasn't Only Public Servant Using Web for "Excessive Indulgences"

Turns out Mark Foley wasn't the only public servant using his taxpayer-funded Internet access for a bit of extracurricular activity. "Excessive Indulgences," a new report [PDF] from the Interior Department (with a cover that screams "stock photography of illicit activity"—Bare midrift! Slot machines! Grocery shopping! Chess!), reveals that in a single week, DOI employees accesed thousands of sex sites, sometimes up to an hour at a stretch. A couple even got busted for surfing child porn at work. DOI staff is also really into online auctions and gambling: The report calculates that they spend 104,000 hours a year bidding and betting. C'mon, House Republicans! You gonna let a bunch of pencil pushing bureaucrats show you up like that?

Comments

Just how far can this go without some people losing their job?

Posted by: Don C. Adkins on 10/06/06 at 7:20 PM

I dont think sexual preferences necesarily will affect job performance...
On the other hand, being fool enough not to know that chating in the internet can come back to hunt you, shows a lot of incompetence.

Posted by: Dr.Q on 10/07/06 at 1:45 AM

OK, I see everthing Foley did was kinda Ok then. Really its Clintons fault he started it all with Monica. Just like the war definitly bills fault too.

Posted by: Kevin Gallagher on 10/07/06 at 12:40 PM

In many agencies, there are floors of employees with nothing to do. Quite common, actually. The situation may be even worse at outfits handling sensitive info.

A large percenetage of federal employees simply need to be fired. Too bad the media ignores the massive glut of nonproductive federal workiers.

In the end, you don't help the employee by giving him a paychek without a real job --or the taxpayer

Posted by: Mikehere on 10/08/06 at 2:30 PM