Professor Jonathan Turley slams FBI as 'the place where evidence goes to die'

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley criticized the FBI as "the place where evidence goes to die" after a recently published whistleblower form shows that the FBI was aware of bribery allegations against the Biden family but refused to act.

"It increasingly seems like the FBI is the place where evidence goes to die," Turley said on "Fox News Sunday." 

"You send evidence to the FBI, if it has the name 'Biden' on it, it dies a very rapid death. And so we have no idea why this is not shared," he also said. 

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, published a lightly redacted version of the FD-1023 form, filed in 2020 by a confidential human source to the FBI. The whistleblower form alleged that then-Vice President Joe Biden was involved in a multi-million-dollar bribery scheme with an executive at the Ukrainian energy firm Burisma Holdings, where Hunter Biden served on the board. 

IRS whistleblower Special Agent Joseph Ziegler, who has alleged the Biden family received millions of dollars in foreign payments but the Department of Justice interfered in the probe, said he had never seen the FD-1023 but it could further validate some of the evidence his agency was trying to prove. 

Turley also said he has "no idea" why the whistleblower form was not shared with Ziegler to use in his probe. "There's no reason why this would be withheld because it confirmed independent information that they had access to."

Madeleine Hubbard is an international correspondent for Just the News. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.