John Kennedy
Role at the time: U.S. Senator (R-LA); member, Senate Judiciary Committee
Mixed or conditional
Statement summary
Sen. John Kennedy pressed Patel skeptically on the hiring-standards change and its public framing, while confirming the policy would not let someone who voluntarily engaged in the conduct become an FBI agent.
“Why would you even get into bestiality?... So you disqualified the animal?... But you’re not telling us today that if a human being had sex with an animal, they can still be an FBI agent?”