FBI agents find additional classified doc in Pence’s home

FBI agents discovered a document with classified markings during a fivehour search of former

Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home Friday, adding to a batch discovered last month.

The document, and an additional six pages not discovered during the Jan. 16 review, were removed by the agents, according to a statement from Pence adviser Devin O’malley. The six other pages were not marked classified, according to the statement.

Pence had agreed to Friday’s search and directed his legal team to continue cooperating with appropriate authorities and “to be fully transparent through the conclusion of this matter,” O’malley said in the statement.

The search was conducted with a member of Pence’s legal team present, and the FBI was given unrestricted access to the home, according to a person familiar with the situation. Pence and his wife weren’t home at the time, the person said.

Pence had brought in a lawyer to search his home on Jan. 16 “out of an abundance of caution” following recent reports about the discovery of classified material at President Joe Biden’s home in Delaware. The same scope for the search for Biden’s home was applied to the search of Pence’s, the person said.

Pence’s lawyer Greg Jacob told the National Archives in a letter last month that Pence had “a small number” of documents marked as classified at his home that were turned over to the FBI following a search, saying that the materials were “inadvertently boxed” and sent to Pence’s home after he left office in January 2021.