by James Hickman via Schiff Sovereign
On April 22, 2010, the story broke that dozens of US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) employees—including senior officials—had spent hours each day surfing pornography on government computers, some for as much as eight hours a day.
An investigation found that 33 employees were involved in the misconduct, with 17 of them earning salaries above $100,000 per year.
Some workers had downloaded so much porn that their computers crashed, while others bypassed security controls to access explicit material.
Yet somehow only eight employees were fired.
The revelations, coming in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, were an especially egregious breach of public trust. While financial institutions engaged in reckless behavior that ultimately led to economic collapse, the very government employees tasked with preventing such disasters were busying watching porn.
Unfortunately, this type of scandal has become a pattern in government agencies.
In late 2023 the FDIC was revealed to have fostered a culture employees described as hostile, abusive, and unprofessional, marked by rampant sexual harassment, racism, and homophobia, where senior employees were promoted rather than disciplined for misconduct.
The head of the FDIC at the time, Martin Gruenberg, had such an explosive temper that staff shied away from reporting critical banking issues, contributing to regulatory failures, such as obvious missed warning signs leading to bank collapses, including Silicon Valley Bank.
Now, just this week, two whistle-blowers from the NSA (National Security Agency) revealed raunchy chat logs from government communication channels at the NSA, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), and CIA (Central Intelligence Agency).
Channels meant to promote DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) quickly became sex-chats where employees shared kinks, talked about their polyamorous relationships, and frequently referenced their genitals.
The timing couldn’t be better given Elon’s email asking government employees to explain what they accomplished last week. Now we know what NSA employees were doing.
One discussed “[G]etting my butthole zapped by a laser” for hair removal, while another talked about “being penetrated” after “gender reassignment surgery.”
Gender-bending was a frequent topic, as one employee shared, “Look, I just enjoy helping other people experience boobs,” while another said that, “[O]ne of the weirdest things that gives me euphoria is when I pee, I don’t have to push anything down to make sure it aims right.”
Whistle-blowers say these groups ‘spent all day’ recruiting activists and holding meetings titled ‘Privilege,’ ‘Ally Awareness,’ ‘Pride,’ and ‘Transgender Community Inclusion.’
NSA leadership wasn’t just aware of these chats, they called them “not only mission critical, but mission imperative,” under the cover of supporting DEI in the workplace.
Keep in mind, not just anyone is allowed to work at the NSA, DIA, and CIA. These people have security clearances. And it takes a lot to get these. The government goes back and interviews childhood friends and teachers to see if these people are fit to access certain information and systems.
And it would be one thing if the US defense and intelligence had a pristine record while this all was occurring.
But it did not.
Last year it was revealed Chinese hackers going under the name “Salt Typhoon” infiltrated the cell phones of several US national security officials, listening in for 18 months undetected.
A year earlier, Chinese hackers infiltrated the US Department of State’s email systems, accessing approximately 60,000 emails which included sensitive data such as travel itineraries and diplomatic communications.
The NSA sex chats were also all going on while these employees presumably could have been collecting and analyzing data that would have revealed the Taliban would quickly retake control of Afghanistan when the US pulled out.
Or perhaps they could have coordinated the withdrawal of US intelligence informants, who were so scared of Taliban retaliation, that they clung to fleeing US planes and fell to their deaths…
But hey, NSA employees were too busy chatting about getting their “butthole zapped by a laser”.
This complete abandonment of core missions, in favor of DEI, also occurred under the last Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General CQ Brown.
Brown explicitly stated that, “I purposely build my office, my front office, and my team with diverse [candidates]. I hire for diversity.”
He didn’t hire for skill. Nor determination. Nor hard work. He hired for diversity.
And was he focused on holding meetings that made the US military the most lethal and mission ready fighting force on the planet?
No, he was too busy creating a monthly “inclusion council” to address so-called “hard questions.”
But not hard questions like: what the hell went wrong in Afghanistan that led to leaving hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment to the Taliban?
Now, it’s encouraging to see some justice being done.
CQ Brown was fired from his post leading the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
100 NSA employees were fired for their sex-chats.
Heck, even beyond the government, our favorite MSNBC host, Joy Reid, was canceled— not in the cultural sense, in the no one watches her trash show sense.
Some of her greatest hits included calling Florida a fascist government, and hosting guests who blamed Kamala’s election loss on Latinos’ internalized bigotry from “the weight of colonialism”, and calling the black lieutenant governor of Virginia, Winsome Sears, a “white supremacist”.
Joy Reid also shouted down Congressman Byron Donalds when he correctly stated, “Social Security is going to be insolvent” within a decade. Reid repeatedly interjected, “That’s not true, that’s actually not true,” over a dozen times.
The Social Security Administration itself publishes a yearly report which says exactly this in plain black and white— trust fund balances “are projected to become depleted during 2033.”
Turns out, the American people aren’t as stupid as MSNBC thought, and have lost the taste for Joy Reid’s propaganda.
Again, it’s great to see the people responsible for some of the worst violations of public trust in America being fired.
But it also just shows how deep the rot goes.
The SEC, FDIC, and NSA have each had their own sex scandals revealed, while failing at their critical missions.
It’s been about one month that DOGE has been rough-auditing some agencies of the US government, which has already revealed absurd fraud and waste at agencies such as USAID and the Department of Education.
But is anyone seriously naive enough to believe it stops there?
This problem is pervasive, and needs to be rooted out if America has any chance of ushering in a New Golden Age.
