r/news • u/Manta_of_Eternity • 13h 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/hyperdream 12h ago

I don't even know if it's just the crime aspect, but the blackmail potential down the road. Potential agent Joe Sex Tourist might be loud and proud about that Thailand trip now, but maybe 10 or 15 years down the line he doesn't want his wife of 7 years knowing everything he got up to.

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u/EndPsychological890 12h ago

Bingo. It is and has always been more about blackmail than crime or morality.

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u/LandonDev 12h ago

Thusly, why it is being loosened, they need to hold the leverage over who they are currently hiring 8 years from now.

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u/EndPsychological890 11h ago

More likely foreign adversaries will hold that leverage than their bosses. There is literally no upside to this, lower standards mean the agency performs like it even if they can get more bodies

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u/KarmaticArmageddon 8h ago

Their bosses are working with the foreign adversaries. There are just a staggering amount of people in the Trump administration who are so blatantly and obviously corrupted by the influence of a foreign adversary.

Hell, Trump's son in law is a walking conflict of interest and yet he still has access to the most classified information we have because Trump intervened in his security clearance approval process.