FBI director Kash Patel grilled over bestiality, prostitution rule changes
The director of the FBI has been grilled in Congress over a rule change that removed bestiality as an automatic disqualifier for job applicants.
The FBI had specific rules preventing people who had engaged in bestiality from working for the bureau.
FBI Director Kash Patel has been accused of incompetence by Democratic senators. AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
But those rules were overturned by Director Kash Patel in June.
Patel explained the change during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
"Applicants who have engaged in bestiality means they were victims of bestiality because they were forced to do so," Patel said.
"And at this FBI, we are not going to criminalise and prevent victims from serving the United States of America and the premier law enforcement agency in the wor...