A Song for Mellencamp

From the Office of the Inspector General’s semiannual report to Congress:

Beginning on October 20, 2008, the OIG conducted an investigation into information showing a Los Angeles Regional Office SK-17 supervisor had been using his SEC-assigned computer to access Internet pornography. The investigation revealed that while using his SEC computer during 17 working days, the employee received approximately 1,880 access denials for Internet websites classified by the SEC’s Internet filter as pornography. The images on these websites included graphic depictions of sexual acts.


Let's spell that out. One thousand, eight hundred and eighty denials of access over 17 working days. He tried to reach prohibitesd porn sites more than 110 times a day. And was continually blocked. After the first 500 blocks or so, might you not have expected him to get the idea?

The IG report also says: The supervisor also admitted that he saved numerous pornographic and sexually-explicit images to his SEC computer hard drive and that he viewed those saved images during work hours.

So the internet access wasn't necessary for his urgent porn-consuming needs,. Yet still he kept trying. 110 times a day. More than 13 times an hour, presuming an 8 hour shift. And surely there would be no reason for this fellow to stay overtime. He must have been eager to get to some more permissive computer terminal when the 8 hour day was done!

You'll be happy to know that he hasn't been terminated. There seems to have been nothing more than a reprimand.

Well ... he's obviously devoted to the service of the public.

And the song for Mellencamp?

P*O*R*N in the S*E*C.

You saw that coming.