Two additional Federal Emergency Management Agency employees have been fired for using their government devices to sext foreign nationals and upload pornography.
An internal investigation conducted by the Department of Homeland Security’s Insider Threat Program (ITP) found that the two employees had been using government systems to engage in sexually explicit behavior, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Monday.
It comes one week after DHS’s Insider Threat Operations Center (ITOC) found two other FEMA employees had been using their government-issued devices to consume ‘deviant pornography’ while at work.
‘This behavior and misuse of government resources is absolutely disgusting. The revolting actions of these employees, now the second group to be caught at FEMA engaged in such acts, represents a clear national security risk,’ Noem said on Monday.
‘These employees, who had access to highly sensitive systems, spent their duty hours sexting strangers, including foreign nationals, on encrypted government devices. Such conduct is unacceptable, and these employees have been terminated.’
The investigation found that one of the fired employees, who has not been identified, had multiple sexually explicit conversations with a Filipino national through Facebook Messenger while on the FEMA network.
Messages reviewed by ITP found graphic sexual content, references to a Filipino dating group and plans to visit the foreign national later this year, according to DHS.
Documents obtained by the Daily Caller showed in one message the FEMA employee wrote, ‘I saw your post on a Philippine dating group here, so I messaged you,’ and later referenced ‘Manila, Philippines,’ and mentioned plans to visit in ‘November or December.’
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