Ingrid Newkirk
Role at the time: Co-founder and president, PETA
Condemned
Statement summary
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk condemned the FBI hiring-standards change and called on Patel to reverse it.
“Director Patel must immediately cancel this abominable misstep. It cannot happen... No one in America supports humans having sex with animals, and to think an FBI agent might be such a cruel pervert is unconscionable and unacceptable.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)The New Republic on PETA condemnation of FBI hiring policy
The New Republic report citing PETA president Ingrid Newkirks statement, originally obtained and published by MeidasTouch.
Why we used this label
Newkirk directly and sharply condemns the policy and calls for Patel to reverse it, an express institutional condemnation on PETAs behalf.