One of the lawyers for the former vice president of the United States, Mike Pencediscovered last week a dozen of documents marked as classified at the home of the Republican politician in the state of Indiana.
Pence’s lawyer, who was vice president of Donald Trump, has turned over the documents to the FBIas reported by CNN on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Pence’s representatives they sent a letter to the National Archives, the institution that has custody of sensitive and classified documents, notifying them of the finding, and in another letter they added that the FBI went to the former vice president’s home to collect the documents.
As Pence’s lawyer explained to the National Archives, the documents were in the former vice president’s house by mistake. Specifically, a “small number” of classified documents had been “packaged and shipped” from the White House to his home without him realizing it.
Pence, who stood by Trump for most of his Presidency, he distanced himself from him after the assault on the Capitol in 2021 and after having received pressure from the president to annul the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.
Biden and Trump also kept classified documents
The discovery of classified documents It has also affected the current president, Joe Biden, that he is under scrutiny after his lawyers found several batches of this type of documentation belonging to his time as vice president of Barack Obama and his period as senator.
The case reminds us of the one that led the FBI to record the residence of former President Donald Trump in summer, also finding classified papers in various boxes that he took from his stage to the front of the country.
The Biden documents were found by their own lawyers and turned over to authoritiesunlike what happened in Mar-a-Lago, where the intervention of the Department of Justice was necessary to recover the papers.
