Classified Documents Found at Pence’s Home in Indiana

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  1. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    Aides to former Vice President Mike Pence found documents with classified markings at his home during a search last week, one of his advisers said.

    The disclosure raises more questions about how classified material is handled at top levels within the U.S. government at a moment when President Biden and former President Trump are both subjects of special counsel investigations on the matter.

    Tuesday, January 24, 2023
    https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/us/politics/mike-pence-classified-documents.html

    Aides to former Vice President Mike Pence found a small number of documents with classified markings at his home in Indiana during a search last week, according to an adviser to Mr. Pence.

    The documents were “inadvertently boxed and transported” to Mr. Pence’s home at the end of President Donald J. Trump’s administration, Greg Jacob, Mr. Pence’s representative for dealing with records related to the presidency, wrote in a letter to the National Archives.

    The letter, dated Jan. 18, 2023, said that the former vice president was unaware of the existence of the documents and reiterated that he took seriously the handling of classified materials and wanted to help.

    Mr. Jacob wrote that Mr. Pence hired an outside lawyer after classified documents were found in recent days at the residence and former private office of President Biden. Mr. Jacob also said the lawyer could not specify anything more about the documents because the lawyer had stopped looking once it was clear the documents had classified markings.

    The disclosure adds more questions about how classified material is handled at the top levels of government at a moment when Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump are both subjects of special counsel investigations on the matter.

    Mr. Trump has been under federal investigation for nearly a year for how hundreds of documents with classified markings, as well as hundreds of pages of presidential records, wound up at his private club and residence, Mar-a-Lago.

    Mr. Trump resisted the urging of aides to give boxes of documents with unknown contents to the National Archives. When he eventually turned over 15 boxes, archives officials found hundreds of pages with classified markings. Mr. Trump later faced a grand jury subpoena to turn over any remaining documents, and one of his lawyers wrote a statement saying everything had been turned over. When investigators found evidence that was not the case, the F.B.I. searched his club in August.

    Mr. Biden, by contrast, has cooperated since the discovery of documents at his nonprofit offices and then his home. Mr. Jacob, who was Mr. Pence’s general counsel while he was vice president, stressed cooperation in the letter to the National Archives.

    Still, aides to Mr. Pence had previously said they were confident that the vice president had not retained any classified documents after he left office.
     
  2. UsualName

    UsualName

    But we’re they in his desk drawer and his safe?
     
  3. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

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  4. GoldDigger

    GoldDigger

    Not Mr. Goody Two-Shoes!

    I am retired from fed govt and am
    curious to know what the nature
    of these documents is, and why
    the VPs brought them home.

    Unless the documents are things
    that they created, I don't see the
    reason to want to keep them.

    Biden's China connections are
    troubling, I hope he did not pass
    things along to them.
     
  5. elderado

    elderado

    No, they are not, idiot (Joe Walsh). But thanks for playing.
     
  6. mervyn

    mervyn

    Here we go again. Biden doesn't have China connection, given what his policies are.

    He forced/stole TSMC to Arizona, that is probably the best thing ever happen to "reshoring".
     
  7. GoldDigger

    GoldDigger

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  8. mervyn

    mervyn

  9. gwb-trading

    gwb-trading

    "Keep em on a hard drive, bit bleach when you are caught, problem solved."

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    :)
     
  10. GoldDigger

    GoldDigger



    Braindead people like you aren't even worth
    my valuable finger energy to respond to, but
    I will make an exception, just this once.

    You said that "Biden doesn't have China
    connection" but I have proved you wrong.
    Besides that, it is common knowledge
    that he has China connections.

    But instead of manning the fuck up, you
    are using the lame and pathetic argument
    that the articles I posted links to from the
    NEW YORK POST and DAILY MAIL are

    "GOSSIP"?

    Your gullible stupidity is astonishing.

    Stop being a weak ass PUSSY and face
    reality.

    Again, have a nice day, I will not respond
    to you any further because you are a

    TOTAL WASTE OF SPACE.
     
    #10     Jan 24, 2023
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