FBI to Search Mike Pence’s Home

Federal law enforcement officials are planning to search the home of former Vice President Mike Pence in the coming days after Pence’s legal team found classified material inside the residence last month, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Pence directed his team to search his home in Indiana and office at his political advocacy group, Advancing American Freedom (AAF), following revelations that classified documents had been discovered in Biden’s office at the Penn Biden Center, a Washington think tank affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. No classified papers turned up in the search of Pence’s offices at AAF.

The National Archives was informed by the former vice-president of the discovery of classified documents in his home. On January 18, the National Archives informed FBI. The FBI later collected the material found at Pence’s home.

The Wall Street Journal reported The Justice Department is currently in negotiations with Pence to schedule an appointment to search the residence within the next few days.

Former President Donald Trump, and former President Joe Biden are currently under criminal investigation by the Justice Department for their handling of classified materials.

Biden’s classified documents were first discovered in his private office at Penn Biden Center, a Washington think tank, on November 2, just one week before the 2022 midterm elections. Since then, Biden’s attorneys have located more classified documents at Biden’s home in Wilmington, Delaware, on multiple occasions: an unspecified number found in the garage on December 20, one document found in Biden’s study on January 11, and five more found in the study on January 12.

Federal officials confirmed two weeks ago that they found more classified material during a 13-hour FBI search of Biden’s home on January 20.

CNN reported last week that while Biden’s team claimed it was cooperative in dealing with the Department of Justice, federal investigators were prepared to get a search warrant if Biden did not consent to being searched.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed former U.S. Attorney Robert Hur — who served during the Trump administration — to serve as special counsel in the investigation after the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois John Lausch, who was assigned to do an initial review of the case, recommended to Garland that a special counsel be appointed.

Tim Pearce contributed to this report.