Durbin asks watchdog to probe new FBI hiring standards on bestiality, prostitution
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."
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