FBI searches Mike Pence's home for classified documents

• Classified papers found at former Vice President Mike Pence's home in Indiana

The FBI is carrying out a

this Friday at the residence of former US Vice President

in Indiana (USA), which has been agreed with him, local media reported.

According to the CNN television network, which quoted a spokesman for the politician,

when visiting the west coast of the country with his family, after his daughter gave birth.

A lawyer for the former vice president is

while the search is taking place.

In January, a Pence aide found

at his Indiana home after the former vice president asked him to conduct a search.

The papers were discovered on January 16 and one of the former vice president's lawyers, Greg Jacob, notified

, the institution that has custody of sensitive and classified documents.

As the lawyer explained to the National Archives, the documents

in Indiana by mistake.

Specifically, a "small number" of classified documents would have been

from the White House to the former vice president's home without him noticing.

In fact, as the lawyer emphasized, Pence

or sensitive documents in his personal residence."

Pence, who stood by Donald Trump for most of his Presidency (2017-2021), distanced himself from him after the

and after receiving pressure from the president to annul the victory of Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 elections.

Media outlets revealed Thursday that the Justice Department has subpoenaed Pence as part of special counsel Robert Hur

to stay in power after the 2020 election that led to the assault on the Capitol.

Contender for the nomination

Pence is currently looming as a contender for the

and has published an autobiography titled "So help me God."

According to the Fox network, Pence's team decided to search the former vice president's home in Indiana and his office at the

tank "Advancing American Freedom" after the revelations about Biden.

This month, it was revealed that Biden's team had found

and classified documents from the time when he was vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017) and when he was a senator (1973-2009).

The documents were discovered at Biden's home in Wilmington, Delaware, and in his private office at the

Penn Biden Center think tank in Washington

The Biden government has tried to distance itself from the case of the classified documents found by the FBI at Trump's mansion in Mar-a-Lago (Florida).

Biden's documents were found by his own

, unlike what happened at Mar-a-Lago, where intervention by the Justice Department was necessary to recover the papers.

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