Intelligence Contractors Being Paid Millions To Surf The Web, Sext With Teens, Have Affairs With Co-Workers

from the your-tax-dollars-fucking-around dept

Let's review some Intelligence Community terminology, shall we? [All expanded definitions courtesy of Vice News and Jason Leopold's FOIA tenacity.]

"Collect [It] All [These Paychecks You Haven't Earned]"

The Intelligence Community Inspector General (IC IG) Investigations Division (INV) identified [redacted] is an employee of CENTRA* Technology, working on ODNI contract [redacted] The data analysis indicated that [redacted] was not likely present at her assigned worksite for the full period in which she billed the contract. [redacted] 1 June 2012 to 29 July [redacted] billed the government for 630 hours for which she was not present at her worksite.

*Jason Leopold points out CENTRA was contracted to review CIA torture documents. Or NOT review them, as appears to be the case here.

Total cost to taxpayers for [redacted] not being at work? Almost $30,000.

Finding: [redacted] falsely charged approximately 306 hours from 1 June 12 to 29 July 2013. She had a billing rate of $89.14 per hour during this time frame. The total amount of mischarging is approximately $27,301.

"Haystacks [of Single Women]"

In the administrative hearing held on 30 March 2012, [redacted] admitted that while at work he used his AIN connection to purchase non-official plane tickets, send instant messages to friends, and check online dating services. According to [redacted] he accessed these online dating and social accounts to view images of scantily clad or naked women. [Redacted] noted that while on the AlN he used MySpace and Meebo as his means of e-mailing and instant messaging his friends and acknowledged that some of these conversations lasted all day. [Redacted] also explained that 95% of his time spent on the internet was for personal use.

Total tab run up by Lazyass P. Horndog* - $974,000 over six years, with an admitted 95% of that being tax dollars down the drain.

"Incidental Collection [of Money in Exchange for not Doing a Damn Thing]"

Finding: [Redacted] submitted false time cards for approximately 220 hours which he did not work, from 15 FEB 12 until 31 JUL 12. [Redacted's] hourly rate charged to the government was approximately $125 per hour; the total loss to the government for this time frame is approximately $27,500. During the IC IG interview with on 18 October 2012, he admitted that he falsely recorded his time since 2005. Mr. [Redacted] previously worked on the same contract at a facility without [redacted]; therefore the IC IG has no record of his time at work prior to 15 Feb 2012. Mr. [Redacted] charged approximately 8.8 hours per week which he did not work over 25 weeks from 1 January 2005 through 15 Feb 2012. An average of 8.8 hours per week from January 2005 through 15 February 2012, equates to approximately 3,282.4 hours which is an estimated loss of $410,300 (without accounting for rate adjustments).

"Minimization Procedures [for Open Browser Tabs on Government Computers]"

In May 2013. the IC IG Investigations Division obtained additional AIN records of sexual chat. We found that [redacted] began using AIN for sex chat in May 2010 and continued on a near daily basis until his removal ODNI facilities on July 18, 2013, under the direction of agency security officials.

[Redacted] often engaged in as many as 20 exchanges per day seeking sex partners. The majority of [redacted's] sex chat included attempts to establish after work sexual encounters, descriptions of desired sex acts and graphic descriptions of his genitalia.

"Targeted Communications"

Upon discovery of information that [redacted] attempted to establish a sexual relationship with a possible minor residing in northern Virginia, this office referred the matter to the FBI, specifically the Northern Virginia Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force.

There's way too much fraud, misconduct, and criminal activity in these reports to fully cover here. The 264 pages [PDF] released to Leopold and Vice as the result of an FOIA lawsuit detail extramarital affairs involving supervisors and subordinates, unapproved telecommuting by contractors handling sensitive documents, and page after page of attendance fraud.

Multiple cases are included, most involving hundreds of hours and tens of thousands of dollars of unearned wages. The intelligence community has the big budget and all the manpower it wants, but it apparently doesn't have enough actual work to keep them all busy. Contractors have charged taxpayers for hours they never worked, running personal errands, moonlighting as university instructors, and tending their Farmville crops.

This is the direct result of the community's "collect it all" attitude. If some is good, more is better, and while budgets and staffing expand exponentially, lots and lots of tax dollars are spent paying contractors who aren't doing anything and plenty of other contractors engaged in IC busywork that contributes nothing to the nation's security and safety.

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