Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
FBI Director James Comey has come under fire for suggesting this week that he wants to relax the bureau’s drug policies to hire the best and brightest hackers.
“I have to hire a great workforce to compete with those cyber-criminals, and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview,” Comey said, urging an audience member to tell his stoner friend to still fill out an application.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., wasn’t pleased and confronted Comey, who responded that he was trying to be lighthearted.
“I am determined not to lose my sense humor,” Comey told the Senate Judiciary Committee. “Unfortunately, there I was trying to be both serious and funny.”
Sessions said Comey’s earlier statement “could be interpreted as one more example of leadership in America dismissing the seriousness of marijuana use.”
