FBI Director Kash Patel testified before Congress on September 15, questioned about an Atlantic article and a June memo that dropped automatic disqualification for applicants who had stolen from employers, paid for sex, or engaged in bestiality. Patel defended the changes, said he is taking the article's author to court, and cited 54,000 violent criminal arrests, up 90 percent, and 31,000 gang members. Cory Booker called him an incompetent lackey. On October 15 the FBI rewrote its promotion system to reward violent crime, counterterror and counterintel results in an agent's district. Patel later said the FBI has an election crimes coordinator in all 56 field offices and would not pledge not to interfere at the polls. The loosened standards remain…