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Federal investigators searched former Vice President Mike Pence’s Washington, DC, workplace on Friday for labeled info and didn’t flip up any new labeled paperwork, a Pence spokesman stated.
The search adopted an FBI search of Pence’s Indiana house final week after a lawyer for the previous vice chairman found labeled paperwork there final month.
“The Department of Justice today completed a thorough and unrestricted search of Advancing American Freedom’s office for several hours and found no new documents with classified markings. One binder with approximately three previously redacted documents was taken,” Pence adviser Devin O’Malley stated in an announcement.
The paperwork within the binder have been believed to be from 2020 debate prep, in keeping with an individual acquainted with the matter.
Act Daily News has reached out to the FBI and the Justice Department for remark.
The search, which was performed consensually with Pence’s counsel current, included each paperwork with labeled markings in addition to unclassified paperwork that would fall below the Presidential Records Act, which requires all official paperwork be turned over to the National Archives on the finish of an administration.
The FBI searches of Pence’s workplace and residence come as federal investigators have additionally searched President Joe Biden’s former workplaces and residences after he found he possessed labeled paperwork late final yr.
Source: www.cnn.com