The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued confidential internal disciplinary quarterly reports on its personnel, which were obtained by CNN, as a way to deter misconduct among its personnel.
The FBI's assistant director, Candice Will, called into investigation a "rash of sexting cases" involving employees who are using their government-issued devices to send lurid, photos to each other. Some personnel have often revealed other inappropriate messages while using the bureau's sanctioned blackberries and computers.
"We're hoping (that) getting the message out in the quarterlies is going to teach people, as well as their supervisors ... you can't do this stuff," Will told CNN this week. "When you are given an FBI BlackBerry, it's for official use. It's not to text the woman in another office who you found attractive or to send a picture of yourself in a state of undress. That is not why we provide you an FBI BlackBerry."
From 2010 to 2012, the FBI disciplined 1,045 employees for a variety of violations, CNN reported. Eight-five people have already been fired. None of the reports have specified job titles, names or the location of the employees.
Some workers were disciplined for lascivious and lewd behavior, like pictures, and suggestive language, others were bad-mouthing other members of the bureau.
One employee "was involved in a domestic dispute at mistress' apartment, requiring police intervention. Employee was drunk and uncooperative with police" and "refused to relinquish his weapon, making it necessary for the officers to physically subdue him, take the loaded weapon and place employee in handcuffs," wrote CNN.
All of the employees in these cases were fired.
"As long I've been doing this ... there are days when I think 'OK, I've seen it all,' but I really haven't," Will said. "I still get files and I think, 'Wow, I never would have thought of that.'"
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