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09-25-2014, 08:16 PM
Reuters) - Pennsylvania's attorney general on Thursday identified top state officials who received pornographic emails on government computers, reversing course after a long-running fight with reporters who sought the release of the information.

All of the officials named by Attorney General Kathleen Kane served under Governor Tom Corbett when he was attorney general and his successor, Linda Kelly.

The list includes two current officials in the Republican governor's administration: Frank Noonan, the commander of the Pennsylvania State Police, and E. Christopher Abruzzo, the state's top environmental official.

Citing an internal review, Kane's office had said it would not release the emails, which were passed between officials in the Attorney General's Office between 2008 and 2012. But it apparently reconsidered.

"Attorney General Kane believes it is in the public's best interest to have a good understanding of how its public servants conduct their business,” Kane's communications director, Renee Martin, said in a statement.

The officials sent and received emails containing images of sex acts that were labeled with euphemistic titles such as “Chin Strap,” “Cigar,” and “Golf Ball Washer.”

They also included satirical inspirational posters with titles such as “Devotion” and “Willingness” depicting females performing sex acts on their male bosses, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.


http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/25/us-usa-pennsylvania-emails-idUSKCN0HK2QY20140925