Posted on 01/24/2023 9:17:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Vice President Mike Pence informed Congress Tuesday that he discovered documents bearing classified markings in his Carmel, Indiana, home on Jan. 16 from his time as vice president.
Following the revelations that classified documents from President Biden's tenure as vice president were found at the Penn Biden Center think tank and Wilmington, Delaware, the vice president's team conducted searches of Pence's Indiana home and political advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom, office.
According to his team, Pence informed the National Archives on Jan. 18 of a small number of potential classified documents found in two small boxes. Another two boxes contained copies of vice presidential papers. The National Archives then informed the FBI per standard procedure.
Pence attorney Greg Jacob wrote on Jan. 18 Acting Director Kate Dillon McClure of the White House Liaison Division National Archives and Records Administration to inform her of the papers "containing classified markings."
After the documents with classified markings were discovered, they were immediately put into a safe, according to the Pence team.
The documents were collected by the FBI at Pence's home in Carmel, Indiana, on Thursday evening, Jan. 19. Pence was in Washington, D.C. for the annual March for Life when the FBI collected the documents.
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I still say President HAS to have a witness that something is declassified! Must be documented that it was declassified. Can’t simply say “I declassify you” 4x and have it be so. Otherwise, all the other copies of classified items will not be updated to unclassified. Which means people with now-unclassified could be charged unfairly.
It doesn’t make sense how this is excused as magic wand.
Good point.
Nude photos of former First Lady Betty Ford?
DuPape with a hammer in the living room: “Where’s the documents at?”
This is them laughing at us and rubbing it in our faces.
Well played sir!
Trump may be the only one who does NOT have any classified docs.
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The real question is: "what does the LAW say?" I'm not a lawyer ...
It's logically possible that the law is screwed up and allows things that don't make sense.
I know. It occurred to me also but I don’t believe Mike Pence would keep quiet if he was aware of “planted” evidence. I think he is a very honest person who has no guile, no ulterior motive.
I have looked the better part of the afternoon, and I just cannot find ANY classified documents from my time in the Army back in the day. Not a danged one. I did find some old letters that my mom wrote me. I even have the one she wrote me back in 1971 telling me that she was Saved by Grace and belief in the LORD JESUS CHRIST. That was a nice letter to find in all those old Army files I still had in a box. That letter is now in my Bible with her Obituary and picture. Nice thing to find.
Why? Just because he wrote the truth as he saw it regarding January 6th doesn’t make him a swamp creature. It was unfortunate what he had to say about the ordeal was unflattering to President Trump. Most likely Pence should’nt have written the book. It didn’t reflect well on him either but seems to have been the truth.
RE: finding more and more....
I remember the section of William L. Shirer’s book The Rise And Fall of the Third Reich in which Hitler had operatives plant money and documents and receipts on opposition leaders and especially nuns and priests.
Then his captive press had headlines and lurid stories of the “guilt” of the “criminals” which most people believed. Those who didn’t were discouraged over it and bowed out of actively supporting Hitler’s enemies.
I’m checking right now to see if I have anything classified in MY closet
There is not a law for small amounts and large amounts. He broke the law
Funny!
I heard that in the Classified Papers found by the FBI in Benedict Bidens’s house was Obama’s REAL Birth Certificate! Ha-ha!
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