After Biden, classified documents also at the home of former US vice president Mike Pence

Documents classified as classified were found at former US Vice President Mike Pence’s home in Indiana last week and he turned those files over to the FBI, his spokesman said. The discovery of classified documents at Pence’s residence marks the third incident in recent history in which a president or vice president has improperly possessed classified material after leaving office. Both Biden and Trump are now being investigated by separate special counsels over their handling of classified material.

Pence’s representatives sent a letter to the National Archives informing them of the documents, and in a separate letter added that the FBI went to the former vice president’s home to collect the documents.

The FBI and the Department of Justice’s Homeland Security Division have begun looking into the documents and how they ended up at Pence’s home in Indiana.

It is not yet clear what the documents relate to or their sensitivity or classification level. Pence’s team plans to brief Congress on Tuesday.

Pence asked his lawyer to conduct the search of his home very carefully, and the lawyer began checking four boxes stored at Pence’s home last week, finding a small number of documents with classified markings, the sources said.

Pence’s lawyer immediately notified the National Archives, the sources said. In turn, they informed the Ministry of Justice.

A lawyer for Pence reported on CNN that the FBI asked to pick up the classified documents that night and Pence agreed. FBI agents retrieved the documents from Pence’s home, the lawyer said.

The US Justice Department on Friday found six more classified documents during a search of the Biden family’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, one of the US president’s lawyers announced on Sunday.

The US president facilitated the search of his home “to allow the Department of Justice to search all areas for any records from his time as vice president and other classified material,” lawyer Bob Bauer said.

During the investigation, President Biden and the first lady of the USA were not present, he clarified.

It is noted that President Joe Biden’s legal team discovered a second batch of classified documents from the time the current occupant of the White House was vice president of the United States in a storage area in the garage of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, the White House announced today.

It is recalled that the announcement by Richard Sauber, a special adviser to Biden, comes a few days after the White House said that an older batch of documents had been discovered in November in an office cupboard at a University of Pennsylvania think tank used by Biden after he left from the vice presidency.

The revelations have created legal and political headaches for Biden as he prepares to seek re-election to the US presidency.

A single document was found in a room next to the garage in Wilmington, and no documents were found at Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach, Sauber said in a statement. The government is “fully cooperating” to ensure the records are handled properly, Sauber said.

There are differences between the revelation that Biden’s legal team found classified documents at his properties and the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into former President Donald Trump’s refusal to turn over classified documents the Republican tycoon took with him from the White House.

The former president kept thousands of government records, some hundreds of them classified, at his Florida residence for more than a year after leaving the White House and did not immediately or willingly return them despite numerous requests from the National Files.

When he finally handed over 15 boxes of records in January 2022, the National Archives discovered that more than 100 were classified. The matter was referred to the Justice Department in the spring, and a special counsel was appointed to oversee the investigation.

Skaigr, CNN

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