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The classified documents found in the Indian residence of the Former Vice President of the United States Mike Pence include materials described as fact sheets about their Trips abroadaccording to CNN.
The sources consulted by the television network indicated that some of the twelve documents found by a Pence lawyer were used to prepare meetings abroad during his tenure.
In addition, they indicated that “they may have been overlooked” during the packing process because they were stuck in old travel folders
These informative notes usually contain basic biographical information on foreign leadersHowever, there are times when confidential information also appears.
The fbi is trying to assess the content of the documents and the potential risk of having classified material stored in an unauthorized location, but based on information from CNNthis material is classified as “lower level“, given that “there would be no particularly unusual data”.
The finding, earlier this week, came after the man himself pence As a precaution, ask one of his lawyers to search the house for evidence. sensitive materialfollowing the discovery of classified information in the office and private residence of the President of the United States, Joe Bidena few weeks ago.
Pence’s legal team found four boxes packed with reports labeled Confidential Information and notified Pence. National Archiveswho reported the finding to the Justice Department. The same night of the discovery, the office of the fbi In Indianapolis, he collected the documentation from Pence’s home in the city of Carmel, which was sent to Washington for analysis by the National Archives.
It’s about the third time in United States history that there is evidence of the discovery of confidential material in the private quarters of a president or vice president, after the findings in the residences of former president Donald Trump and the now head of the White House, Joe Biden.
A few days ago, President Biden assured that has no regrets about handling classified documents found in one of his offices during his time as vice president in the mandate of Barack Obamajust over a week after the Justice Department will name a special prosecutor to research the topic.
“I don’t think they will find anything, I have no regrets; I am following what the lawyers want me to do”the president told reporters during a visit to California and added that he hopes that everything will be resolved “as soon as possible”.
“When we discovered that a handful of documents were filed in the wrong place, we turn them over immediately to the Archives and Department of Justice”, explained the US president.
Biden is in the eye of the hurricane after it became known that irregularly kept a series of classified papers at his home and in his office when he was vice president (2009-2017) of Barack Obama.
The White House confirmed that he found a third batch of documents at the president’s house in Delawarein a search made by his lawyer, Richard Sauber.
days before, the US Attorney General Merrick Garlandappointed a special expert to study all the classified papers that have been found in Biden’s homes and offices.
The situation is reminiscent, although with many differences, of the classified papers found in the mansion of the former President Donald Trump.
Trump (2017-2021) is being investigated by the Justice Department for accumulating classified documents in his residence of sea-a-lake (Florida), which were discovered after a FBI raid.
(With information from Europa Press and EFE)
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