I love it. The New York Times quotes Gawker which quotes The Washington Times.

from www.nytimes.com – It seems that the Securities and Exchange Commission may have a pornography problem even bigger than expected.

Gawker reported that S.E.C. is investigating rampant pornography surfing by employees on their work computers.

The blog writes:

Now we’ve obtained reports of 16 investigations into porn-surfing by SEC employees and contractors (one of them is a woman!), including one man who said his daily porn viewing at work was limited to “no longer than an hour and a half a day.”

The sixteen cases reported by Gawker follows a February article by The Washington Times, which first reported details of the S.E.C.’s internal investigation.

In a semiannual report by the S.E.C.’s internal watchdog to Congress released in December, H. David Kotz, the S.E.C.’s inspector general outlines numerous cases of misconduct by former and current employees, including two instances of S.E.C. officials using their office computers to view pornography on the Internet.

from www.gawker.com – Over the past two years, more than a dozen Securities and Exchange employees and contractors have tried to view pornography on government computers at least 8,273 times. Here’s what they were looking at while the global financial system cratered.

The Washington Times broke the story of the SEC’s porn problem, which became the subject of numerous inspector general investigations, last month. And Dealbreaker subsequently published one report of an inspector general investigation into an SEC regional supervisor who viewed transvestite porn at work as stress relief.

Now we’ve obtained reports of 16 investigations into porn-surfing by SEC employees and contractors (one of them is a woman!), including one man who said his daily porn viewing at work was limited to “no longer than an hour and a half a day.” The man told investigators that his porn habit grew out of looking at photos of men in bathing suits, which is sometimes known as “gateway porn”: