ESQUIRE: …A staffer marched into the office and beelined to [Pennsylvania attorney general Kathleen] Kane’s desk, pressed into the corner of the room. Kane’s steely blue eyes fell to a disc that was resting in the staffer’s hand. “We’re putting this on your computer because the information is important,” he said bluntly. “But I recommend that you not look at these.”…
Loads of pornography littered the exchanges between government officials like so much cow shit in an open field. Office-secretary porn. Sarah Palin-Photoshopped porn. Hardcore, objects-stuck-in-a-woman’s-every-orifice porn. The more she clicked, the worse it got. Fat jokes. Gay jokes. Racist jokes. Domestic-violence jokes.The bulk of which were sent on state computers, on state time, from one state employee to another…
The men—they were almost all men—exchanging these images were among the most prominent names in the state’s judicial system. And they’d been doing it for years, with no fear of being reprimanded. No, Kane thought. This is wrong. All wrong. She had to blow the whistle, to show Pennsylvanians the true personas of men they could someday face inside a courtroom… (more)
EDITOR: Unfortunately what the article never mentions is that the Pennsylvania government is rated the fifth most corrupt in the country. It is like trying to walk across a swamp.
