(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 12, 2022 former US Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a campus lecture hosted by Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. - A lawyer for Mike Pence discovered documents marked as classified at the former US vice president's home last week and turned them over to the FBI, a top lawmaker said on January 24, 2023. Pence "reached out today about classified documents found at his home in Indiana," Republican House oversight committee chairman James Comer said in a statement, adding that the potential 2024 presidential hopeful had agreed to "fully cooperate" with any congressional investigation. (Photo by Ryan M. Kelly / AFP)
International Desk: Documents marked as classified were discovered at former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home last week, and he has turned those classified records over to the FBI, his attorney said in letters seen by Reuters on Tuesday.
The attorney, Greg Jacob, sent a letter to the National Archives on Jan. 18 notifying them of the documents and in a separate letter on Jan. 22 notified the Archives that the FBI came to the former vice president’s home to collect them, reports Reuters.
The discovery puts Pence in the company of his former boss, former President Donald Trump, and President Joe Biden after documents with classified markings were found at their residences.
Jacob said in the letter dated Jan. 18 to the National Archives that “out of an abundance of caution” Pence had engaged outside counsel to review records stored in his home after reports about the materials found at Biden’s residence.
“Counsel identified a small number of documents that could potentially contain sensitive or classified information interspersed throughout the records,” Jacob wrote in the letter.
