A senior Justice Department official has resigned after the department's inspector general found that the employee used government computers to view porn.

The Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General said it launched an investigation in response to allegations that a deputy assistant attorney general “had been observed viewing sexually explicit images” on a government computer.

The office said its investigation later proved the allegation to be true, which is a violation of the department’s policies. The inspector general disclosed details of the case in an investigative summary released Thursday.

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The inspector general has not identified the Justice Department official, who it said resigned before the investigation finished. The office noted that criminal prosecution of the official was declined.

The investigation uncovered two computers issued to the official that contained “data regarding numerous sexually explicit website searches, visits to websites hosting sexually explicit videos, sexually explicit search engine terms, and sexually explicit images.”

The office said that after being confronted with the preliminary results from its forensic examination, the official “ultimately admitted” that they “may have intentionally accessed pornographic websites using government computers.”

According to the inspector general's summary, the senior official was also found to have made false statements to the office under oath after previously denying “accessing or viewing sexually explicit websites or material from a government computer.”