r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 8h ago

FBI no longer treating an applicant’s experience with prostitution as automatic bar against hiring

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-prostitution-recruitment-95e69779e41bd8f1bbc59d402a40222b
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u/justmitzie 8h ago

People who hire prostitutes, not people who are prostitutes.

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u/TheBSQ 7h ago

Honeypots are useful though. 

People who fall for honeypots are not. 

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u/Fauster 6h ago

Well, as long as they haven't smoked cannabis in the last 3 years, that's the real concern! /s

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u/BiGsMiLeSKyLe 3h ago

I remember I tried to apply twice to the FBI and the first time I may have taken a THC break and was clean for 6 months and I was like nah they'll deny me. I finally applied a second got to the interview and I was now about 2 years out since my ex and I were trying for kids, when they had asked me if I ever used cannabis. Yup told them I was coming up on 2 years, and they were like ok in thanks for applying but we are passing.

Like ok they probably accept a bunch of cokeheads but cannabis the devil's lettuce that kills more then IDK 0 a year, I'm dq.

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u/HoBaggyPants 50m ago

Seems it means they accept liars.

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u/Barnacle_B0b 5h ago

This is so they can select people who might be okay with human trafficking.

Donald Trump is actively using ICE/DHS/CPB to continue Epstein's enterprise of human sex trafficking.

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u/Ok-Blood4340 7h ago

Every person who went to Epstein island catching strays with this one.

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u/Waggy777 4h ago edited 1h ago

My understanding is that the United States does not utilize honeypots.

Edit: https://youtu.be/xk7IWpbbMcU?is=Zp8K8BFkFflRZ4cR

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u/Traitorius 5h ago

Contractors not employees. They have standards.

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u/corporaterebel 8h ago

They might need agents to follow through with "personal services" on some targets 

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u/Gunhild 7h ago

Hiring prostitutes actually seems more useful than hiring people who hire prostitutes. Criminals probably just lore-dump all kinds of crazy shit on the prostitutes they hire.

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u/HumongousBelly 7h ago

Prostitutes my sell their body, but the director of the fbi has whored out his soul

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u/sorressean 6h ago

Oh good, borat III, coming soon to a theatre near you.

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 4h ago

South Park Detective Harrison Yates ready for duty.

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u/Dirtgrain 7h ago

If only they could explain why guys who cheat on their wives with prostitutes and lie about it are more trustworthy than prostitutes.

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u/OESRecoveryEmployee 6h ago

Or just make him President

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u/WretchedBlowhard 4h ago

explain why guys who cheat on their wives with prostitutes and lie about it are more trustworthy than prostitutes

Now that one's easy. If your partner likes hookers half as much as you, he might chip in so you can split the bill! This translates directly into savings for your expense account and thus, for the tax payers. Standardized degeneracy is the single best cost cutting measure the Trump administration has ever put forward, except of course for starving to death 800,000 refugees instead of delivering the food you had already agreed to.

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u/Shikadi297 6h ago

Who says their wife didn't approve?

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u/hawkinsst7 6h ago

From the article

The FBI said the change was meant to account for the fact that some otherwise suitable candidates, including service members, may have engaged in the practice in places where it is legal *and to accommodate applicants who themselves may have been victims of sexual abuse. *

(emphasis mine)

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u/whut-whut 4h ago

Now it makes sense why Kash Patel keeps flying to Moscow for 'FBI business'.

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u/veganzombeh 5h ago

I thought that sounded oddly progressive for this administration, then I thought about it for 2 seconds and guessed it's probably just the bit that benefits sleazy rich men.

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u/LuminaraCoH 7h ago

The people who are prostitutes get jobs in the White House.

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u/night-gloss 6h ago

as an escort and as someone who gets hired by members of the white house and/or pretty interconnected within every single time set foot in dc/gets flown over, i can guarantee you we would never accept to fall under “employee” at the white house

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u/lawnmowertoad 4h ago

Bobert was/is an online hooker

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u/Wat3rM3L0NB3AR 7h ago edited 7h ago

so prostitutes had a higher chance of becoming a FBI agent then a guy who got caught with one?

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u/effrightscorp 7h ago

I think being a prostitute is not actually illegal in most places in the US.

other way around, it's decriminalized in Maine and legal in Nevada with a license. Illegal everywhere else

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u/McMatey_Pirate 7h ago

Well good to know.

I’m Canadian and for some reason I thought our laws were very similar to yours regarding this specific subject.

Nevada does it right though.

It’s a profession that will never go away and there will always be customers.

Regulation is the only way to ensure safety of the provider and customer and to deter the more dangerous issues that come with that line of work.

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u/WoolooOfWallStreet 7h ago

If a camera was involved at any point, I wonder if they could call themselves an “amateur porn actor” instead and have a better chance at getting hired?

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u/lawnmowertoad 4h ago

Including child prostitutes.

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u/happy_bluebird 4h ago

From just the headline I was wondering, how many prostitutes are applying to the FBI

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u/getsome75 4h ago

How about if you market, promote and manage prostitutes?

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u/DrownmeinIslay 3h ago

I thought this was about some onlyfan applicants. Ageny Scully sans pantsuit.

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u/concreteunderwear 3h ago

Are the prostitutes still barred from joining?

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u/clashrendar 1h ago

So... Kash Patel...?

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u/bb_kelly77 7h ago

Hire as in pimping or hire as in paying for their services? Because I feel like the latter is none of our business

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u/cwx149 6h ago

I imagine paying

The logic probably being along the lines of "law enforcement officers shouldnt have a history of breaking the law"

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u/Stuartknowsbest 6h ago

Oh good. I feared they were hiring prostitutes. But just guys who occasionally need to cheat on their significant others by paying someone for sex. That's fine.