At a hearing, the committee's ranking member, Mr. Durbin, reads Kash Patel a passage saying the FBI dropped automatic disqualification for applicants who have engaged in bestiality, not victims of it. Patel answers that applicants who "engaged in bestiality" were victims "forced to do so." He says he "eliminated the bureaucracy" that kept them from being considered and will "continue to do that."
The receipt
- Who
- Kash Patel
- Where
- hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee
- Original footage
- The Independent · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 39 seconds, unedited within the cut
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No you didn't because you lied. No I could just say what I'm reading to you is you dropped automatic disqualification for applicants who have been engaged in bestiality not victims of bestiality applicants who have engaged do you disagree with that? Applicants who have engaged in bestiality means they were victims of bestiality because they were forced to do so and at this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving the United States of America and the Premier Law Enforcement Agency in the world. They did that before. I eliminated the bureaucracy that prevented these great Americans from serving or at least being considered from serving and I'm going to continue to do that.
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