Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks on the National Press Club on November 30, 2021 in Washington, DC.
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The FBI found a further classified document Friday during a search of the Indiana home of former Vice President Mike Pence, his spokesman told CNBC.
Authorities also took six other pages of records that didn’t bear classified markings after completing the five-hour search, Pence advisor Devin O’Malley said in an announcement.
“The vp has directed his legal team to proceed its cooperation with appropriate authorities and to be fully transparent through the conclusion of this matter,” O’Malley said.
The search got here greater than two weeks after Pence’s attorney told the National Archives and Records Administration that a “small number” of documents with classified markings had been found at the previous vp’s residence.
Those records were discovered after Pence asked outside counsel to search for them — a choice that Pence’s lawyer said was prompted by the news that classified documents had been found at President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware.
Police secure the doorway to the neighborhood of former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023 in Carmel, Ind.
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The FBI and the Justice Department declined to comment on the search.
A member of Pence’s legal team was present throughout the search of his Carmel, Indiana, home, to which the DOJ was given “unrestricted access,” in accordance with an individual accustomed to the matter.
Along with in search of classified documents, authorities looked for records that may very well be “original Presidential Record Act documents,” the person said.
The DOJ assured that the scope of its search was the identical for Pence because it was during searches of Biden’s Delaware homes, in accordance with the person.
Neither Pence nor his wife, Karen Pence, were there on the time, the person noted.
