GOP ramps up attacks on SEC over porn surfing

So you think that the same people who created this government agency to "oversee" the financial industry and now want to create another one for "consumer" protection are going to get a different result?



This administration can't even spend 787 BILLION dollars responsibly to get us out of a recession.


They have no concern about creating any jobs and so do we really think that they will be any more focused on making sure you don't get folled again when they are spending so much time being distracted?
 
GOP ramps up attacks on SEC over porn surfing
 
By DANIEL WAGNER, AP Business Writer Daniel Wagner, Ap Business Writer – Fri Apr 23, 4:10 am ET


WASHINGTON – Republicans are stepping up their criticism of the Securities and Exchange Commission following reports that senior agency staffers spent hours surfing pornographic websites on government-issued computers while they were supposed to be policing the nation's financial system.


California Rep. Darrell Issa, the top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said it was "disturbing that high-ranking officials within the SEC were spending more time looking at porn than taking action to help stave off the events that put our nation's economy on the brink of collapse."


He said in a statement Thursday that SEC officials "were preoccupied with other distractions" when they should have been overseeing the growing problems in the financial system.


The SEC's inspector general conducted 33 probes of employees looking at explicit images in the past five years, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.


The memo says 31 of those probes occurred in the 2 1/2 years since the financial system teetered and nearly crashed.
 
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