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FBI Had a Bestiality Hiring Rule — Kash Patel Just Found It in the Basement

On September 15, FBI Director Kash Patel sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about a June 16 directive that quietly removed bestiality from the FBI's automatic disqualification list for job applicants. The same directive also softened the bureau's standards on prostitution and theft from an employer.

The man running the FBI didn't write the rule. He inherited it.

The policy change traces back to the FBI's 2022 employment eligibility guide, which previously barred any applicant who participated in bestiality, regardless of circumstances. The June 16 revision carved out an exception for applicants who "were victims of bestiality because they were forced to do so," according to Patel's testimony. The revised standard also loosened the prostitution disqualifier — conduct occurring more than three times or within the last ten years would still be flagged, but isolated incidents older than a decade would no longer trigger automatic rejection.

Patel told the committee the change was designed to stop penalizing trafficking victims. "At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving," he said. "The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it."

That phrasing caught the attention of Senator John Kennedy, Republican from Louisiana, who had questions about "either side." His exchange with Patel became the most memorable moment of the hearing.

"Either side of bestiality? So you disqualified the animal?" Kennedy asked.

"Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them," Patel responded.

Kennedy pressed further. "I'm trying to understand why you did this. Why did you get into bestiality?"

The question wasn't really about Patel's judgment. It was about why this policy existed in any form at all — who, in some conference room at FBI headquarters, decided the bureau's hiring framework needed a nuanced bestiality carve-out and got enough people to sign off on it that it became official guidance.

Ranking Member Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, joined the questioning, making this one of the rarer moments of genuine bipartisan agreement on the Judiciary Committee. Both sides wanted to know how a federal law enforcement agency arrived at a place where the phrase "either side of bestiality" appeared in an official employment document.

The Senate committee gave Patel a deadline of September 28 to produce supporting documents related to the directive.

Patel has spent his tenure pulling open drawers the previous leadership clearly hoped would stay shut. Surveillance abuses, politicized investigations, and internal rot have all surfaced since he took over. A bestiality hiring carve-out wasn't on anyone's bingo card, but it fits the pattern — an agency that quietly rewrote its own standards while nobody in Congress was watching.

The FBI used to be the institution Americans pointed to when they wanted to say government could work. Now the director sits in front of senators explaining the agency's official position on animals and applicants, and both parties are equally appalled.

Somehow that's progress.

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