2026年10月9日 美国东部时间下午3:18 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
华盛顿——参议院司法委员会最高民主党议员周五要求司法部内部监察长调查联邦调查局为何放宽了对可能曾涉及兽交、卖淫或职务盗窃的候选人的雇佣标准。
在写给司法部监察长唐·贝蒂奥姆的信中，伊利诺伊州参议员迪克·德宾表示，联邦调查局雇佣标准的放宽“有可能破坏联邦调查局的工作，并对该局的公信力构成严重风险”。
哥伦比亚广播公司新闻早在8月首次报道，联邦调查局于6月悄悄放宽了雇佣标准，这与此前的做法形成了突然转变。
此前，任何曾从事兽交、卖淫或盗窃雇主财物的人都会被自动排除在该局的雇佣范围之外。
而根据新的标准，18岁之前曾有过兽交、虐待动物或动物“碾压”行为的人，仍有可能被考虑录用为联邦调查局雇员。
在卖淫方面，只要求职者未曾三次及以上雇佣性工作者，且相关行为发生在10年之前，就不会被自动取消资格。
新指南还允许联邦调查局考虑录用曾盗窃雇主财物的求职者，前提是盗窃行为发生在三年之前。
在上个月一场不同寻常的听证会上，联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔似乎难以捍卫这项新政策的调整，他对议员们表示，此举旨在确保被迫与动物发生性行为的性侵犯受害者不会被排除在该局的雇佣之外。
他与路易斯安那州共和党参议员约翰·肯尼迪的交锋随后成为喜剧节目和无数网络梗的话题。帕特尔告诉这位议员，此前针对兽交的雇佣政策“自动取消了任何参与其中任何一方的个人的资格”。
“哪一方？兽交吗？”肯尼迪说道，随后又问：“所以你连动物都取消资格了？”
此前熟悉该局雇佣惯例的现任和前任联邦调查局特工以及法律专家告诉哥伦比亚广播公司新闻，他们对这些调整深感担忧，称这表明联邦调查局在招募新人才方面可能遇到了困难。
还有多人表示，他们对该局为这一转变给出的理由感到困惑，并指出所有求职者都有机会在接受测谎前披露可能影响测谎结果的个人问题，比如曾遭受性侵犯的经历。
“帕特尔局长的回应几乎没有阐明这些调整的目的或影响，”德宾在给监察长的信中写道。
“这类规模重大的调整却没有明确的正当理由，必须受到审查。我要求你的办公室调查这些政策调整的制定和实施情况，”他补充道。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/kennedy-grills-patel-tense-exchange-on-bestiality-and-fbi-hiring-rules-senate-hearing/
观看：肯尼迪在激烈听证会上就兽交与联邦调查局雇佣规则质询帕特尔
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Durbin asks DOJ watchdog to investigate FBI’s new hiring standards on bestiality, prostitution and employment theft
2026-10-09 3:18 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington— The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday asked the Justice Department’s internal watchdog to investigate why the FBI lowered its hiring standards for candidates who may have engaged in bestiality, prostitution or employment theft.
In a letter to Justice Department Inspector General Don Berthiaume, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin said the lowering of the FBI’s hiring standards “threaten[s] to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.”
CBS News first reported in August that the FBI quietly lowered its hiring standards in June, marking an abrupt shift from prior practice.
Previously, anyone who engaged in acts of bestiality, prostitution or stole from an employer was automatically precluded from working at the bureau.
Now, under the new standards, a person who engaged in acts of bestiality, animal cruelty or animal “crush” before the age of 18 can still be considered for an FBI job.
For prostitution, job applicants will not be automatically disqualified as long as they have not hired sex workers three or more times and as long as the act took place more than 10 years ago.
The new guidelines also allow the FBI to consider hiring job candidates who stole from their employers, as long as the theft took place more than three years prior.
In an extraordinary hearing last month, FBI Director Kash Patel appeared to struggle to defend the changes to the new policy, telling lawmakers that it was aimed at ensuring that sexual assault victims who were forced to have sex with animals would not be precluded from employment at the bureau.
His exchange with Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana has since become the topic of comedy shows and countless internet memes. Patel told the lawmaker that the prior hiring policy on bestiality “automatically disqualified any individual who participated on either side of it.”
“Either side of what, the bestiality?” Kennedy said, later asking: “So you disqualified the animal?”
Current and former FBI agents and legal experts familiar with the bureau’s hiring practices previously told CBS News they were deeply troubled by the changes, saying they were indicative of challenges the FBI may be having with recruiting new talent.
Several also said they were baffled by how the bureau was justifying the shift, noting that all applicants have an opportunity to disclose personal issues that could impact the results of their polygraph prior to taking the test, such as a history of sexual abuse.
“Director Patel’s responses did little to clarify the purpose or effects of these changes,” Durbin wrote in his letter to the inspector general.
“Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized. I ask that your office investigate the circumstances around the development and implementation of these policy changes,” he added.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/kennedy-grills-patel-tense-exchange-on-bestiality-and-fbi-hiring-rules-senate-hearing/
Watch: Kennedy grills Patel in tense exchange on bestiality and FBI hiring rules
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