FBI finds MORE classified documents at Mike Pence’s home
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FBI finds MORE classified documents at Mike Pence’s Indiana home during five-hour search
The FBI has found more classified documents at Mike Pence’s home in Indiana, adding to material discovered by its own team earlier.
Pence adviser Devin O’Malley said the Justice Department completed a five-hour search and found at least one more file with classified marks following a “consensual search of his residence” on Friday.
O’Malley said in a statement that the Department of Justice “completed an exhaustive and unrestricted five-hour search and removed a document with classified marks and six additional pages without such marks that were not discovered in the initial review by the vice president’s attorney.’
“The Vice President has directed his legal team to continue to cooperate with the proper authorities and to be fully transparent in the conclusion of this matter,” he continued. The search came hours after it was revealed that Pence had been subpoenaed by special counsel Jack Smith.
A police car was seen parked outside the gates of the $1.9 million Carmel estate, just hours after it was subpoenaed by special counsel for the Justice Department investigating Donald Trump.
The FBI will arrive at Mike Pence’s Indiana home on Friday morning to search for classified documents, according to local media.
Last month, Pence’s lawyers revealed that a “small number” of documents with classified marks were discovered in the former vice president’s home. More were found on Friday.
It was just the latest incident in which government investigators managed to uncover more classified material than lawyers working for the high-powered property owner.
The FBI has now been involved in searching for properties owned or used by Pence, Biden, and former President Donald Trump; in Trump’s case, it operates under a court-ordered subpoena after months of back and forth.
The admission earlier this month came on the heels of classified documents being found in President Joe Biden’s former D.C. office and Wilmington home, and after the FBI raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago for Lost classified documents in August.
The documents were found by one of Pence’s lawyers, who had been tasked with reviewing his documents at the vice president’s request, out of an abundance of caution after the Biden and Trump discoveries.
They were located on January 16, with Pence’s attorney, Greg Jacob. writing a letter and informing the National Archive of the find on January 18.
Jacob asked a senior Archives official for help “collecting and transferring to the custody of the National Archives an additional set of vice-presidential records.”
“The additional records appear to be a small number of classified-marked documents that were inadvertently packaged and transported to the former vice president’s personal home at the end of the last administration,” Jacob said.
“Vice President Pence was unaware of the existence of confidential or classified documents at his personal residence,” the lawyer added.
FBI agents came to collect the documents on January 19, but have not yet reviewed Pence’s documents on their own.
The FBI is expected to search the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence for more classified documents “in a matter of days,” NBC News reported Monday.
A police car was seen parked outside the gates of the $1.9 million Carmel estate (file image above), just hours after the Justice Department’s Special Counsel subpoenaed it to investigate Donald Trump.