A couple of weeks after the FBI executed a court-approved search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, the Associated Press asked former Vice President Mike Pence about whether he might have a similar problem. The Republican said he didn’t take any classified information with him when he left office.
“No, not to my knowledge,” Pence told the AP at the time.
As it turns out, that wasn’t quite right. NBC News reported this afternoon:
A ‘small number’ of classified documents was discovered last week at former Vice President Mike Pence’s Indiana home, according to letters Pence’s counsel sent to the National Archives obtained by NBC News.
Pence’s lawyer, Greg Jacob, told Archives officials in a letter dated Jan. 18, “The additional records appear to be a small number of documents bearing classified markings that were inadvertently boxed and transported to the personal home of the former Vice President at the end of the last Administration.”
The letter added that the Republican “was…
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