We’ve reported on this before, but given the recent developments, it’s likely a good idea to revisit it.

Note to future government employees: Surprisingly, it is NOT okay to surf porn while on your government computer.

Employee misconduct investigations, often involving workers accessing pornography from their government computers, grew sixfold last year inside the taxpayer-funded foundation that doles out billions of dollars of scientific research grants, according to budget documents and other records obtained by The Washington Times.

Just how bad was the tax-funded porn open-house?

One senior executive spent at least 331 days looking at pornography on his government computer and chatting online with nude or partially clad women without being detected, the records show.

Not to worry, he was caught.

When finally caught, the NSF official retired.

And then he qualified his rationale:

He even offered, among other explanations, a humanitarian defense, suggesting that he frequented the porn sites to provide a living to the poor overseas women.

It gets better, much better:

He explained that these young women are from poor countries and need to make money to help their parents and this site helps them do that," investigators wrote in a memo.

So, just how much money did this cost us?

Investigators put the cost to taxpayers of the senior official’s porn surfing at between $13,800 and about $58,000.

A bargain compared to the rest of the government waste fraud and abuse.

h/t lazy hazy