American Government Employees Sure Do Love Porn

Government employees are just like you and me—they wake up in the morning, put on some pants, go to work, and sit at a computer all day. Just like you and me, sometimes they get bored, so they surf the web a little bit. And—this is where we stray from the “just like you and me” trope—sometimes they watch hours and hours of hardcore porn at work. That’s right: gigabytes of filth are being downloaded from a government-controlled network onto government-issued computers and consumed during government-billed hours. These are your tax dollars at work, people.

It seems like there’s a government-worker-watching-porn-at-work scandal every single year, and 2012 is no exception. However, the stakes are a bit different this year since the government workers who got busted with smut also happen to control our ground and sea-based missile defense system. Last Friday, the executive director of the Missile Defense Agency sent out a memo to his staff, scolding them for “engaging in inappropriate use of the MDA network.” John James Jr. clarified, “Specifically, there have been instances of employees and contractors accessing websites, or transmitting messages, containing pornographic or sexually explicit images.”

Read the rest at Motherboard.