Two Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) employees were recently fired after an internal probe determined they engaged in “sexually explicit conduct” on the job — including spending “hours sexting strangers” on government-issued devices.
The smut-scrolling staffers were identified by the Department of Homeland Security’s “Insider Threat Program,” which discovered that the now ex-FEMA employees “used their official government equipment” to engage in salacious online chats “at some of our government’s most classified facilities,” DHS revealed on Monday.
“These employees, who had access to highly sensitive systems, spent their duty hours sexting strangers, including foreign nationals, on encrypted government devices,” DHS posted on X.
“Such conduct is unacceptable, and these employees have been terminated,” the agency added.
One of the fired employees was a worker in FEMA’s IT services division and held a top secret security clearance, according to the Daily Caller.
The former staffer allegedly used Facebook Messenger last month to exchange multiple racy messages with someone believed to be in the Philippines, the outlet reported.
“I saw your post on a Philippine dating group here, so I messaged you,” the FEMA IT worker wrote in one chat.
“[I] can’t bring my phone inside my workplace, so I leave it in the car. Only chat here on FB Messenger while I’m working,” read another message.
“I wish you were here sitting in my lap while I work,” the distracted staffer continued. “I want to hug your waist while I work and smell your hair, kiss your neck.”
The fired FEMA employee was also found to be searching for hotels in the Philippines and wrote in one chat that he hoped to visit in “November or December.”
The second terminated employee worked as a FEMA environmental protection specialist in Alabama and “repeatedly accessed a pornography site on the agency’s unclassified network” to engage in explicit chats with multiple people, according to the Daily Caller.
During one conversation last month — with a porn user identified by the account name “tooMessyForMe” — the FEMA employee shared a pornographic image uploaded from a computer file labeled “work memes.”
The employee was also found to have made numerous sexual comments on the unnamed website.
DHS had fired two different employees last week after the probe found they were consuming “deviant pornography” – including bestiality and “racially charged” material – on the clock.
“These individuals had access to critical information and intelligence and were entrusted to safeguard Americans from emergencies—and instead they were consuming pornography,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said of the rogue workers last week.
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