Former Vice President Mike Pence also had classified documents at his home

New chapter in the saga of classified documents.

This Monday it was Mike Pence, who was vice president of Donald Trump, who admitted that his assistants discovered a dozen documents with classification marks as secrets at his home in Indiana.

Pence thus joins former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden, who also improperly took confidential documents to their private homes.

The records “appear to be a small number of classified-marked documents that were inadvertently boxed up and transported to the former vice president’s personal home at the end of the last administration,” Pence’s attorney, Greg Jacob, wrote in a letter sent to the National Archives. , the institution that must guard the documents and records when presidents and vice presidents cease their positions.

According to Jacob, Pence “hired an outside attorney, experienced in handling classified documents, to review records stored at his personal home after it became public that documents bearing classified markings were found at the residence of President Joe Biden in Wilmington”.

The Department of Justice has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the papers seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump's residence in Palm Beach (Florida) and another to investigate why Biden also had classified documents in an office of a study center and at his home in Wilmington.

Pence's attorney said in his letter that the former vice president was "unaware of the existence of sensitive or classified documents at his personal residence" and "understands the great importance of protecting sensitive and classified information and is ready and willing to cooperate fully." with the National Archives and any appropriate research.”

Jacob said Pence immediately put the discovered documents in a locked safe.

And according to a follow-up letter from the attorney dated Jan. 22, FBI agents visited the former vice president's residence to collect the documents.

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