FBI Director Kash Patel on Tuesday found himself defending a new policy at the bureau that does not immediately disqualify potential hires who have engaged in bestiality.
\n\nAt a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, some senators grilled Patel about the new standards, which he said were established so as not to discriminate against potential victims of sex trafficking who were forced to perform acts of bestiality.
\n\nHis explanation elicited curious responses, including one from Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., who asked Patel why he would “even get into bestiality.”
\n\nPatel quickly emphasized that “we’re not into bestiality,” to which Kennedy said, “I know you’re not,” prompting a chuckle from Patel, who said he was trying to explain the policy.
\n\nKennedy asked, “If Joe participated in bestiality, not as animal but as the human, don’t you think he ought to be disqualified?”
\n\n“If he voluntarily did it, sure. But if he was trafficked into it …,” Patel responded.
\n\nKennedy went on to ask how a person would “involuntarily do it.” Patel said human traffickers forced people into types of conduct like bestiality and “degrading acts of all kinds” in “a lot of cases.”
\n\nHe said people at the bureau who suggested the…
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