Documents marked as classified were discovered at former U.S.
Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has
turned those classified records over to the FBI, his attorney said
in letters seen by Reuters on Tuesday, Trend reports citing Reuters.
The attorney, Greg Jacob, sent a letter to the National Archives
on Jan. 18 notifying them of the documents and in a separate letter
on Jan. 22 notified the Archives that the FBI came to the former
vice president’s home to collect them.
The discovery puts Pence in the company of his former boss,
former President Donald Trump, and President Joe Biden after
documents with classified markings were found at their
residences.
Jacob said in the letter dated Jan. 18 to the National Archives
that “out of an abundance of caution” Pence had engaged outside
counsel to review records stored in his home after reports about
the materials found at Biden’s residence.
“Counsel identified a small number of documents that could
potentially contain sensitive or classified information
interspersed throughout the records,” Jacob wrote in the
letter.
“Vice President Pence immediately secured those documents in a
locked safe pending further direction on proper handling from the
National Archives,” he said. Pence’s counsel did not review the
contents of the documents once they were determined to be marked
classified, the letter said.
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