Dick Durbin

And some of these individuals would go on to be law enforcement officers who qualified to be law enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI

But Democratic Senator Dick Durbin challenged that explanation, saying the policy itself refers to applicants who engage in the conduct, not specifically trafficking victims.

So here's what actually changed.

Stealing from an employer, paying for sex, and bestiality used to be automatic disqualifiers.

It's like, you know what? That, that got old really quick, Kash.

And your burned book going after, you know, "Oh, Dick, what do I say against Dick Durbin?" You know, this-

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Now, this is absolutely ridiculous, and it's a discussion I didn't think that I would be having or be talking about, but this is where we are as the United States of America, and I guess that's the whole point of everything I'm going to say.

Senator Dick Durbin, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, opened the line of questioning by reading directly from an internal FBI memo issued this past June.

said, according to a memo issued this June, the FBI has lowered its hiring standards by dropping automatic disqualification for applicants who have stolen from employers, paid for sex, or engaged in bestiality.

What followed might be one of the most embarrassing moments in FBI history.

The director attempted to justify the unjustifiable, degrading his office and humiliating the entire department in the process.

Durbin went straight to the heart of the matter, asking Patel whether these were the qualified candidates the FBI has been losing.

Patel never actually answered the question.

Instead, he said, what we did was we did not want to punish victims of bestiality, victims who were trafficked.

okay to spouses of members of congress own real property and lease it to the federal government and how would we find that out because i think i know what you're going to say

now keep in mind little dick durbin and his portly wife she's a big-time lobbyist she handles a couple of the suburbs anybody want to look And what her record is.

Anybody want to look at what the ownership is of the little tiny Dick Durbin family? I think they got a nephew, right? A nephew, a cousin.

They're all simpletons.

And they're all on the inside game.

And some of these individuals would go on to be law enforcement officers who qualified to be law enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI.

But Democratic Senator Dick Durbin challenged that explanation, saying the policy itself refers to applicants who engage in the conduct, not specifically trafficking victims.

So here's what actually changed.

Stealing from an employer, paying for sex and bestiality used to be automatic disqualifiers.

In a series of extraordinary exchanges with both Democratic and Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patel insisted that several changes were made to ensure that victims of sexual assault or trafficking involving animals were not precluded from employment.

at the FBI, quote, we did not want to punish victims of bestiality victims who were trafficked in, quote Patel told Democratic Senator Dick Durbin during an oversight hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Now, as I've said, they've already had an existing protocol.

for unique circumstances.

want to say anything else to the press? McConnell himself at 84 after four decades still being wheeled around in a daze.

Jim Risch, Dick Durbin, Patty Murray, Ron Wyden, Susan Collins, Chuck Schumer.

They should have all packed it in 20 or 30 years ago instead of turning the Senate into a gerontocracy that can't pass a damn thing of significance while the country waits on farm bills, budgets, and its future.

This is no way to run a republic.

It's ridiculous.

Yeah, the filibustering and the, you know, it's just sad that these people are, you know, Dick Durbin, that guy, apparently he thinks he's the man.

He's smarter than Cash is.

Check this guy out.

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