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Friday, April 23, 2010

Public Records Show ... SEC Staff Viewing Porn During Wall Street Meltdown in 2008

A memo obtained by the Associated Press shows that some staff at the Security and Exchange Commission were not doing what we pay them to do ... while Wall Street was imploding in September, 2008 (AIG, Lehman Bros., etc.).

The SEC staff need to unionize like public employees in Washington state. If they did, they would sue any public records requestor who sought to show they were watching porn on their work computers. They would assert a "privacy" interest in their workplace internet browsing histories.