The FBI is searching this Friday the private home of former United States Vice President Mike Pence in Indiana, as reported by several US media present there.
Traffic is closed and the agents have started the search in an agreed action, as in the case of the searches of the houses and Biden's old office and unlike the search of Mar-A-Lago, the mansion of former President Donald Trump in Palm Beach (Florida), which was carried out with a court order.
The FBI is looking to see if there are more classified documents in Pence's house than the former vice president himself has already found and turned over to the National Archives.
The FBI already went to Pence's house last month, but then it did not go to search the house, but to collect the files that the former vice president himself had discovered that he had improperly in his possession.
According to Pence's lawyer, Greg Jacob, it involved "a small number of documents with classification marks that were inadvertently boxed up and transported to the former vice president's personal home at the end of the last administration."
In a letter to the National Archives, the institution that must guard documents and records when presidents and vice presidents leave office, Jacob explained that Pence hired an external lawyer on January 16, with experience in handling classified documents, to review records stored in his personal home after it became public that documents with classified marks were found at President Joe Biden's Wilmington residence.
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 that he "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 indicated in his letter that Pence immediately put the discovered documents in a locked safe.
According to a subsequent letter from the attorney dated January 22, FBI agents visited the former vice president's residence to collect the documents at 9:30 p.m. on January 19, even though Pence was in Washington to participate in the
March for Life.
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