The Committee has a constitutional obligation to conduct oversight of the FBI’s personnel practices, and a change of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized. We therefore request the FBI produce the following no later than September 28, 2026: A complete, unredacted copy of the June 16, 2026 memorandum outlining these hiring policy changes, and any drafts, analyses, or briefing materials prepared in connection with it; All records reflecting who at the FBI reviewed or approved this change and any consultation with internal or external parties before it was adopted; The number of applicants hired, extended conditional offers, or placed under case-by-case review since June 16, 2026, whose files would previously have been automatically disqualified, broken out by category of conduct; The number of applicants hired, extended conditional offers, or placed under case-by-case review since February 28, 2025, whose files would previously have been automatically disqualified for engagement in prostitution or bestiality; Any analysis the Bureau conducted, before or after February 28, 2025, of the effect these changes could have on courtroom credibility, counterintelligence exposure, or blackmail vulnerability among personnel hired under them; and All guidance issued to background investigators, polygraph examiners, and adjudicators instructing them to apply the revised standards.
Demand that the FBI provide unredacted records, data, analyses, and guidance about changes to FBI hiring disqualification standards by September 28, 2026.
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“We therefore request the FBI produce the following no later than September 28, 2026:” / “Sheldon Whitehouse United States Senator”
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