Posted on 05/20/2014 2:17:05 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
Monday was a big day for the nations 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 thats 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 nations 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 agencys marijuana policies, which excludes from consideration anyone who has smoked marijuana in the previous three years, according to the FBIs 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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Pot is against the law.
Those that smoke pot are criminals and those that smoke pot regularly are habitual offenders of the laws.
Hardened Criminal, Habitual Criminal are pretty much the same thing.
In Oregon, we have medical marijuana. So what happens now
when a company has mandatory drug testing and you test positive for drugs and are not hired. This is a lawyers
wet dream....
BTW- I never did use the term “hardcore criminal.”
This can't be true because every single pot smoker is a brain dead idiot who only lifts a finger during a psycotic break or to run down little suzy with his car. I know it's true becuase I read it right here on FR.
I just gave a sample for a drug screen test for temporary employment. It’s probably going to be positive because I take a medication that can cause a false positive for cannabis. I will have to prove that I have this prescription or I will lose the job. This is an office job, not an airline pilot or anything that critical. Why does everybody have to have these screens? There was a time when employers didn’t do this.
Yes, we here on FR believe in freedom, except when we don’t.
The only reason for them to be “grappling” is because they’ve chosen to be confused. The FBI predates the big wave of MJ laws, they’ve crossed this bridge before going in the other direction. They just need to dust off the old policy book.
If the laws were as laws should be, few, understandable by the general populace, reflective of generally accepted social mores, the view that law breakers should not be in positions of public trust would be sound and easily defensible. Unfortunately, the phenomenon documented in the books entitled One Nation Under Arrest and Three Felonies a Day suggest that a thoroughgoing application of your notion in present circumstances will prevent anyone who has run a business, not to mention a goodly swath of the population at large, from being though worthy of positions of public trust.
Yes, you will be punished for taking your medication.
You will also be punished if you don’t take your medication.
Take your pick, you will be punished.
Yes, I'm sure there's no shortage of whip-smart computer programmers and hackers who will quit smoking weed just so they can land a low-paying government job with the FBI.
I read a story a few years ago on U.S. companies that drug test American employees, but not their foreign counterparts. They interviewed an HR rep from EDS and asked why Americans were tested but Canadians were not. Her answer? Canadians won’t put up with it. But hey, Land of the Free, and all that.
We have a court system that ruled it was ok for companies to test employees and now it’s just accepted by everybody. Whole generations don’t remember a time when employers didn’t do this. Consider the time, the cost, the ethical and legal questions. Is it really necessary to test every employee?
This is will be a goldmine for defense attorneys.
Det. X were you smoking pot during the investigation?
Stoners are stuck on stupid. There is no medical reason for pot.
yes
There probably are... In India...
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