AG assails probe into state employees who shared porn
HARRISBURG - Attorney General Bruce Beemer on Tuesday released a long-awaited special report on pornographic emails sent on state computers, but only after stripping it of senders' names and dismissing it as ineptly researched, a "poor use" of public funds, and a document that risked unfairly maligning hundreds of people.
Beemer castigated the 50-page report by Douglas Gansler, a former Maryland attorney general, saying his careless use of a computer methodology to flag troubling emails led him to mislabel discussions of breast cancer as pornography and to deem offensive a Budweiser commercial that had aired during a Super Bowl.
"There was no attempt made to determine the context of the emails, the content, and the relationship between the people sending the emails, and that created a real problem," Beemer said.
The report was poised to be the final chapter in a scandal that has lingered for two years, one that cost two Supreme Court justices and several state officials their jobs, fueled unproven allegations, and sowed suspicion across state offices.
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