China News Service, February 3 (Xinhua) Comprehensive US media news on the 2nd, people familiar with the matter said that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is expected to conduct searches on the residence of former US President Mike Pence in Indiana and his office in Washington in order to find secret document.
It is reported that the U.S. Department of Justice is in talks with Pence's legal team to arrange the search.
Pence's legal team said they had conducted a thorough search and did not believe there were classified documents in Pence's home or office, the sources said.
Jacob Pence's lawyer revealed in January that a "small number of classified documents" had been found at the former vice president's home and had been turned in.
The documents "were inadvertently boxed and shipped to the former vice president's private residence at the end of the previous administration."
The discovery makes Pence the third former or current senior U.S. official to keep classified materials while in office at home, after Biden and Trump.
The Presidential Records Act of the United States requires the President and Vice President to transfer documents to the National Archives for safekeeping.
The residences of Biden and Trump have been searched by the FBI.
U.S. media reported that after many people were involved in the classified documents scandal, the U.S. National Archives formally asked the past six U.S. presidents and vice presidents on January 26 to re-examine whether their personal materials contained secrets that should not be kept private. document.