This is to follow up on yesterday's posting of a letter from an FBI job applicant who was rejected for service on the basis of teenage marijuana use.
Pursuing a hint from Jim Durbin in the comments section I looked up the FBI's "employment policy statement" Sure enough, it confirms that
An applicant who has used marijuana within the past three years or more than a total of 15 times in one's life will be found unsuitable for employment.The good news, however is that
The FBI welcomes and encourages applications from persons with physical and mental disabilities and will reasonably accommodate the needs of those persons.Presumably it was the people with mental disabilities who created the employment policy that rejects desperately needed experts on the grounds of teenage experimentation with marijuana during the 1970s.
And could mental disability also explain the agency's inability to figure out that the July 4 LAX shooter was a terrorist?
Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at July 25, 2002 01:21 PM