BREAKING NEWS: The FBI is searching Mike Pence’s Indiana home for more classified documents
- The FBI is expected to search former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home for more classified documents
- The Wall Street Journal reported on the move on Thursday. Sources say the Justice Department is in talks with Pence’s legal team
- Last month, Pence’s attorneys voluntarily announced that documents bearing secret markings were discovered in the ex-VP’s $1.9 million home in Carmel, Indiana
The FBI is expected to search former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home for more classified documents.
The Wall Street Journal reported on the move on Thursday. Sources say the Justice Department is in talks with Pence’s legal team.
Last month, Pence’s attorneys voluntarily announced that documents with classified markings were discovered at the ex-vice president’s home — immediately after classified documents were found at President Joe Biden’s former DC office and Wilmington home, and after the Former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago was raided by the FBI in August for missing documents.
The documents were discovered by one of Pence’s attorneys, who had been hired as a precaution to search his papers at the vice president’s request.
They were found on January 16, with Greg Jacob, Pence’s attorney, writing a letter notifying the National Archives of the discovery on January 18.
The FBI is expected to search former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home for more classified documents
Jacob enlisted the help of a senior records official “to collect an additional set of records from the Vice President and place them in the custody of the National Archives.”
“The additional records appear to be a small number of documents with classified markings that were accidentally bagged and transported to the former vice president’s private home at the end of his last term,” Jacob said.
“Vice President Pence was unaware of the existence of sensitive or classified documents in his private home,” the attorney added.
FBI agents came to collect the documents on January 19 – but have not yet checked Pence’s papers themselves.
Sources told CNN that the documents were of a lower classification than the top-secret papers found at Biden’s Delaware home and Washington, DC office, and the more than 300 files found in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago -Resort were found.
The network reported that the documents were background information for trips abroad.