Posted on 05/20/2014 2:17:05 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Monday was a big day for the nation’s cyber police. The Justice Department charged five Chinese military officials with hacking, and brought charges against the creators of powerful hacking software.
But FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday that if the FBI hopes to continue to keep pace with cyber criminals, the organization may have to loosen up its no-tolerance policy for hiring those who like to smoke marijuana.
Congress has authorized the FBI to add 2,000 personnel to its rolls this year, and many of those new recruits will be assigned to tackle cyber crimes, a growing priority for the agency. And that’s a problem, Mr. Comey told the White Collar Crime Institute, an annual conference held at the New York City Bar Association in Manhattan. A lot of the nation’s top computer programmers and hacking gurus are also fond of marijuana.
“I have to hire a great work force to compete with those cyber criminals and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview,” Mr. Comey said.
Mr. Comey said that the agency was “grappling with the question right now” of how to amend the agency’s marijuana policies, which excludes from consideration anyone who has smoked marijuana in the previous three years, according to the FBI’s Web site. One conference goer asked Mr. Comey about a friend who had shied away from applying because of the policy. “He should go ahead and apply,” despite the marijuana use, Mr. Comey said.
Earlier, the FBI director said the agency had “changed both our mindset and the way we do business.” He said it worked less “in-box” than it had in the past.
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JAMIROQUAI
“High Times”
You don’t need your name in bright lights
You’re a rock star
And some tin foil with a glass pipe
Is your guitar - now yes it is
Little Angela
Suffers delusions
From these high times
She’s been cleaning up, since she was fourteen
On the main line
And her hunky funky junky, of a boyfriend
Got her on late nights, with her skirt tight
Woah, she’s a wild thing
Letting it all swing
God bless our high times
Don’t you know that last night
Turned to daylight
And a minute, became a day
Last night (last night)
All my troubles
Well they seemed so, so far away
Searching my reflection
For a glimpse of, another me
I’ve got to get away from all these high high times
‘Cause these high times are killing me
Now high times go on and on and on
High times rock your mind yeah
This twisted crystal Kingdom
Where you live your nine lives
And your head spins
With purple cyclones
Made of dexadrine
And when the phone rings
You think bad things
Well these are high high high high times yeah
In any back street
When you take a hot seat
Make sure check your flight times
Oh now mama
Don’t you know that last night
Turned to daylight
And a minute, became a day
Last night (last night)
All my troubles
Well they seemed so, so
This country is going to really suck in 10 years.
Can’t be true. Stoners aren’t smart. Officer Stedanko told me so.
It really sucks now. And has since November 4, 2008.
This all starts with Obama, the first pot smoking President, who wants to bring in a hardened criminal element into the FBI.
The Clinton white House quit doing security checks so that they could attract what they considered the “right people” as they saw them.
This all starts with Obama, the first pot smoking President, who wants to bring in a hardened criminal element into the FBI.
He seems to be grappling with quite a few uhh things
Our Stoners vs their Stoners.
Fire with fire?
No, Clinton was the first, but he didn’t inhale.
I think Bill Clinton smoked pot.
Then hire someone else
If anyone thinks W. didn’t have a toke or three, I’ve got a bridge for sale.
Don’t you mean, “Who didn’t see this coming? “
I wonder how it’s gonna look when these guys take the stand and admit they were as high as a kite when they collected the evidence...
A defense lawyer’s dream come true.
Clinton claimed he only smoked pot once and did not inhale.
Obama admits smoking pot habitually from high school through college and likely beyond. I would not count Clnton’s violation of that law as serious.
On the other hand, Obama clearly engaged in an illegal behavior over a long period of time.
Like it or not, pot is against the law and law breakers should not be in the White House or FBI.
I don’t see how collecting ON-LINE evidence while high could be a problem. It could be one thing if its physical evidence, and there is a question regarding collection, chain of custody, etc. But on-line evidence is a different animal.
Yes, and all this has nothing to do with your silly comment about pot-smoking computer nerds being hardcore criminals. Right now I’m leaning toward “troll”.
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