They sow it everywhere. A new classified document was found by the FBI on Friday at the home of former US Vice President Mike Pence, his spokesman told several US media.
Like Joe Biden and Donald Trump before, classified documents had already been discovered in his home in Indiana, a Midwestern state, at the end of January. This new search was organized on Friday, in coordination between the FBI and Mike Pence’s lawyers.
“The vice-president has ordered his team (…) to show complete transparency until this case is resolved,” his spokesman Devin O’Malley said in a statement quoted by several media.
Not a search
In the United States, a 1978 law obliges American presidents and vice-presidents to send all their emails, letters and other working documents to the National Archives. Another law, on espionage, prohibits the keeping of documents classified as confidential in unauthorized and unsecured places.
If the FBI organized a search at Pence and Biden, but an unannounced search at Trump, it is because the former American president refused to collaborate with the investigators. So the Justice Department got a grand jury warrant to knock on Mar-a-Lago’s door.