Kash Patel explains the FBI’s decision to remove the bestiality disqualification, saying it punished victims forced into such acts.
Director of the FBI Kash Patel defended the decision to remove bestiality as an automatic disqualifier for job applicants during his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 15, 2026. For context, before this decision, the FBI automatically rejected applicants for engaging in bestiality. However, that changed earlier this year.
When asked by the committee about the changes, Kash Patel defended the decision to remove bestiality as a disqualifier. Patel claimed that the rule disqualified victims of trafficking and others who are forced to partake in bestiality. As quoted by CNN, Kash Patel said:
“We did not want to make it an automatic disqualification for the FBI to consider you if you are a victim of these awful, heinous acts.”
Patel later explained:
“We did not want to punish victims of bestiality, victims who were trafficked.”
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“We are not into bestiality”: Kash Patel Clarifies New FBI Rule
During the hearing, Kash Patel emphasized that the FBI is not suddenly embracing bestiality and said:
“We are not into bestiality.”
Republican Senator from Louisiana, John Kennedy, was not happy with the answer. The Senator pressed Patel about the rule and asked:
“I know you are not, but you changed the qualifications and mentioned bestiality. If Joe participated in bestiality, not as the animal but as the human, don’t you think he ought to be disqualified?”
Kash Patel clarified that voluntary participation in bestiality is still a disqualification. The FBI director said:
“If he voluntarily did it? Sure. But what if he was trafficked into it?”
Kennedy asked him to explain what he meant by the trafficking comment. Patel then detailed the exact reason why he did away with the bestiality rule as a disqualifier. He claimed victims of human trafficking are sometimes forced to participate in brutal acts, including bestiality. Kash Patel explained that the new rule would allow them to apply to the FBI:
“In a lot of these cases, human traffickers, who are some of the worst individuals on planet Earth, don’t just traffic you for prostitution. They traffic you for degrading acts of all kinds. And they force you into that type of conduct. Some of these individuals go on to become law enforcement officers, qualify to be law enforcement officers, and later apply to the FBI.”
During the exchange with Senator Kennedy, Kash Patel made the distinction between involuntary and voluntary bestiality. Patel made it clear that people voluntarily participating in such acts are barred from the FBI and should be in jail.
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