The FBI is searching the private home of former US Vice President Mike Pence in Indiana this Friday, according to several US media present there. Traffic is closed and agents have begun searching in an agreed-upon action, as in the case of searching the homes and old office of Biden, as opposed to the search of Mar-A-Lago, former President Donald Trump’s Palm mansion Beach (Florida) conducted by court order. The FBI is investigating whether there are more classified documents in Pence’s house than the former vice president has already found and handed over to the National Archives.
The FBI had already gone to Pence’s house last month, but then it wasn’t to search the house but to collect the files that the former vice president himself discovered and had illegitimately in his possession.
According to Pence’s attorney, Greg Jacob, it was “a small number of classified documents that were accidentally bagged and transported to the former Vice President’s private home at the end of his last term.”
In a letter to the National Archives, the institution responsible for keeping documents and records when presidents and vice presidents leave office, Jacob explained that Pence was home on April 16 after it was revealed that documents were at President Joe Biden’s Wilmington residence were found with classified information.
Pence’s attorney said in his letter that the former Vice President was “not aware of the existence of any sensitive or classified documents at his personal residence” and that he “understands the great importance of protecting sensitive and classified information and is ready and willing to cooperate.” “. complete with the National Archives and all appropriate research.”
Jacob stated in his letter that Pence immediately placed the discovered documents in a locked safe. According to a subsequent Jan. 22 letter from the attorney, FBI agents visited the former vice president’s residence at 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 to pick up the documents, even though Pence was in Washington to attend the March for Life.
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