Foley Wasn’t Only Public Servant Using Web for “Excessive Indulgences”

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Turns out Mark Foley wasn’t the only public servant using his taxpayer-funded Internet access for a bit of extracurricular activity. “Excessive Indulgences,” a new report [PDF] from the Interior Department (with a cover that screams “stock photography of illicit activity”—Bare midrift! Slot machines! Grocery shopping! Chess!), reveals that in a single week, DOI employees accesed thousands of sex sites, sometimes up to an hour at a stretch. A couple even got busted for surfing child porn at work. DOI staff is also really into online auctions and gambling: The report calculates that they spend 104,000 hours a year bidding and betting. C’mon, House Republicans! You gonna let a bunch of pencil pushing bureaucrats show you up like that?

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