A lawyer for former Vice President Mike Pence found around a dozen classified documents at Pence’s Indiana home last week, CNN reported Tuesday afternoon. Pence promptly turned the documents over to the FBI, according to the report.
Mother is going to be verrrry angry when she learns about all the old Sears catalog girdle and bra pages found with these classified documents.
Prob gonna need another special counsel.
Is there any reporting on how historically common the inadvertent retention of classified materials had been?
Mrs. Pence = my 70’s mom.
Maybe someone should check Mount Vernon and Monticello…just to be on the safe side. The redcoats are still out there somewhere.
We are living history.
Yes, but what did the fly know and when did it know it?
I have been wondering the same thing. There seems to have been a pretty loose document retention process for a long time. I bet a few “classified” documents can be found in the possession of a lot of former presidents and vice presidents.
None of that is the same thing as the whole sale theft Trump engaged in.
At this point it’s abundantly clear that the ultimate failure is in the National Archives document tracking procedures and policies. The old honor system is an utter failure.
That’s no fly!
My loose understanding is that “classified” can be a very broad definition. For example, someone said a travel schedule could be classified. Certainly that is understandable at the time but less so as the years pass.
Will Merrick appoint a Special Counsel for Pence? And if not. why?
Overclassification and poor tracking/retention are real problems that we should seek to mitigate. I’m having a hearty laugh at Pence, but I’d bet you’d find at least a little bit of lower-level stuff in a thousand offices.
Hell, I’ve got a conference schedule on my bookcase that wasn’t even classified, just government-only (Distribution C, for those who speak the lingo) that says “please destroy when no longer needed.”
(I “need” it in perpetuity so I have a record to prove that I gave that talk, so there!)
Just wanting to stress “inadvertent” here…
It’s somewhat different than the “advertent” activities of Prince Doturd of Merde-a-Lardo.
The trucks, the planes, the packing of the boxes…
Tucker, tRump, et al will use it to slime Pence, to lower his favorability numbers from 3.2% to 2.5%, and to take the light off Doturd. “See, it happens to all of us !”
Lol. Can Dick Durbin shut the f**k up now? Please?
No one is more disappointed in this development than the media.
Mikey Pence likes classified documents. Oh, mother!!
Not if there’s a camera.
Don’t tell the New York Times, they are actively engaged in creating an equivalence between Biden and Trump’s actions.