It’s not a topic often discussed in the halls of Congress, but Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) grilled FBI Director Kash Patel as he said he was just “trying to understand” a recent change in policy regarding bestiality.
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Kash Patel preps jabs for Durbin, gets asked instead to explain the FBI's bestiality hiring policy.
“This guy shows up to a hearing about who the FBI is allowed to hire with a whole binder of burns for Durbin, like it's a roast instead of oversight. The actual news out of that room was a United States senator standing up and asking point-blank why the bureau needed a position on bestiality after it dropped its hiring bar — that's not a gotcha, that's the floor your tax dollars set. "Lowering standards" isn't an abstraction, it's the room running out of polite words for it until somebody finally has to just say it on camera.”
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The DOJ disbanded its crypto enforcement team in April 2025 and ordered inconsistent investigations closed - while the president's family runs a crypto business CNBC, 8 April 2025 (Blanche memo)
Kash Patel testifies on FBI oversight before Senate committeeIt is Patel's first appearance before Congress since May.
Patel came ready with several bullet points' worth of jabs to make at Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) during an oversight hearing Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
FBI Director Kash Patel is appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee for an annual hearing on oversight of the agency.
During a Senate committee hearing, Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, asked FBI Director Kash Patel about his agency lowering its hiring standards, an internal memo that was first reported on CBS News.
Their relationship has been heavily scrutinized since Patel took charge of the bureau in February 2025.
FBI director Kash Patel testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, clashing with some lawmakers at the start of the hearing. CBS News' Taurean Small reports.
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