KASH PATEL DEFENDS FBI'S BESTIALITY HIRING POLICY IN SENATE HEARING

We are not into bestiality, but a lot of these individuals, I know you're not, but you change- But I'm trying to explain it. You changed the qualifications and mentioned bestiality. and mentioned bestiality. not as the animal but as the human, but as the human, don't you think he ought to be qualified- disqualified? if he voluntarily did it? Sure. but if he was trafficked into it- how do you involuntarily do it? The FBI changed its hiring policy so bestiality incidents before age 18 no longer automatically disqualify applicants. In a lot of these cases, when human traffickers, who are some of the worst planet Earth, they don't just traffic you for prostitution, for degrading acts of all kind, and they force you into that type of conduct. And so I thought these individuals law enforcement officers law enforcement officers who qualified officers and later applied to the FBI. I mean, this didn't- I mean, this didn't these changes didn't start with you, did they? Somebody came to you and recommended? Yeah. Yeah. when you saw bestiality, when you saw bestiality, I say this with respect, I say this with respect, the person who recommended it, recommended it, why didn't you just say why didn't you just say "what planet "what planet did you parachute in from?" did you parachute in from?" "Why do I want to lead-""Why do I want to lead Well that was my "Why do I wanna lead with my chin and get into bestiality?" and get into bestiality?" That was my initial response, senator. But they and showed me cases in which people were forced into it and had applied to the FBI. And so I thought they should be considered. It's not an automatic disqualification, Okay. All right, I think I understand, but you're not telling us today that if a human being that if a human being had sex had sex with an animal, with an animal, that they can still be an FBI agent? No. No. They can't be, can they? They cannot. they ought to be in jail right? They all are.