Address safety in the National Airspace System (NAS) as it relates to the FAA Air Traffic Controller (ATC) hiring policy

The FAA’s mission is to protect the safety of civil aviation yet the recent hiring bid for controllers excluded qualified candidate in favor of inexperience. This introduces risk.
The bid included a biographical questionnaire (62 questions). The FAA used the questionnaire to filter candidates and it resulted in individuals with the minimum experience being selected ahead of FAA rated pilots, military controllers, college & CTI graduates, and individuals that previously received perfect scores in FAA aptitude testing.
THIS IMPACTS SAFETY IN THE NATIONAL AIRSPACE SYSTEM and the public deserves an explanation. Questions that eclipse many years of aviation related experience in favor of inexperience are absurd. Also, disclosure of the controller hiring bid policy and criteria is requested.