CNN: Patel said in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that the new rules were put in place because “we did not want to punish victims of bestiality, victims who were trafficked.”
“We did not want to make it an automatic disqualification for the FBI to consider you if you are a victim of these awful heinous acts,” he said.
Senators across party lines immediately zeroed in on what Patel meant by “victims” of bestiality.
“Why would you even get into bestiality?” Republican Sen. John Kennedy asked Patel…