Almost 100 federal government employees have admitted or been caught viewing copious amounts of pornography while on the job in the past five years, according to an investigation by Washington's News4 I-Team.

The cases include workers who admitted spending six hours a day surfing illicit images and videos and maintain tens of thousands of adult images on their office desktops.

While only some of the cases revealed by the I-Team were criminal in nature, because they included viewing of pornographic images of underage teens, the I-Team investigation raised questions about whether the federal government has instituted sufficient penalties.

Using the Freedom of Information Act, the I-Team sought records of cases of egregious on-the-job pornography viewing at 12 major government agencies.

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