The inspector general has found that a high ranking EPA official spends most of his workday looking at pornographic websites. It caught the employee red handed watching porn on his government-issued computer while on the clock for the EPA. Upon subsequent interviews the employee admitted to watching between two and six hours of porn per workday. This has been going on since 2010.

But, the employee is still receiving his $120,000 salary, continues to have access to EPA computers, and has recently received performance bonuses, according to testimony at yesterday’s Oversight Committee hearing on the EPA. “Employees have rights,” said EPA Deputy Administrator Bop Perciasepein response to inquiries by the Committee as to why the agency hasn’t fired the employee yet.

The IG’s investigation determined that the employee visited 600 different porn sites in just four days, spent four consecutive hours on a site called ‘sadism is beautiful,’ and had 7,000 porn files on his computer. “How much pornography would it take for an EPA employee to lose their job?” asked Committee Chairman Darrel Issa.

Wasting taxpayer dollars watching porn is just the latest example of malfeasance at the EPA. Recent investigations have uncovered employees receiving unauthorized bonuses, committing fraud, and using agency credit cards for personal expenses. These abuses are in addition to top official John Beale’s defrauding taxpayers of $1 million by skipping work pretending to be a CIA agent and former administrator Lisa Jackson, among others, conducting business on secret email accounts.