{"id":744,"date":"2023-01-25T11:56:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=744"},"modified":"2023-01-25T11:56:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T16:56:24","slug":"classified-documents-found-at-mike-pences-home-and-turned-over-to-doj-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"Classified documents found at Mike Pence&#8217;s home and turned over to DOJ: Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-745\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"992\" height=\"558\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-12.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-12.png 992w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-12-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-12-770x433.png 770w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-12-293x165.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/image-12-390x219.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Former Vice President Mike Pence, Nov. 16, 2022 in New York City.<br>John Lamparski\/Getty Images, FILE<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classified documents have been found in the home of former Vice President Mike Pence and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/classified-materials-handled-analysis\/story?id=96416984\" target=\"_blank\">turned over to the FBI for review<\/a>, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A lawyer for Pence conducted the search of Pence&#8217;s home in Indiana last week and found around a dozen documents marked as classified, sources said. The search was done proactively and in the wake of the news&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/key-events-biden-classified-documents-probe-updated-timeline\/story?id=96396261\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that classified documents from before he was president were found in Joe Biden&#8217;s home<\/a>&nbsp;and old office at the Penn Biden Center, a Washington, D.C., think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pence documents are undergoing a review by the Department of Justice&#8217;s National Security Division and the FBI, the sources said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The revelation makes Pence the third high-profile official to have classified material discovered at their residence in recent months, after Biden and former President\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, both of whom\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/unprecedented-special-counsels-biden-trump-put-enormous-pressure\/story?id=96420344\" target=\"_blank\">are now being investigated by special counsels<\/a>\u00a0under the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/classified-documents-found-mike-pences-home-turned-doj\/story?id=96637301\">https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/classified-documents-found-mike-pences-home-turned-doj\/story?id=96637301<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classified documents have been found in the home of former Vice President Mike Pence and\u00a0turned over to the FBI for review, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell ABC News. A lawyer for Pence conducted the search of Pence&#8217;s home in Indiana last week and found around a dozen documents marked as classified, sources said. The search was done proactively and in the wake of the news&nbsp;that classified documents from before he was president were found in Joe Biden&#8217;s home&nbsp;and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}