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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Zeke Miller,Farnoush Amiri,Colleen Long and Jill Colvin

Classified records pose conundrum stretching back to Carter

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

At least three presidents. A vice president, a secretary of state, an attorney general. The mishandling of classified documents is not a problem unique to President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.

The matter of classified records and who, exactly, has hung onto them got more complicated Tuesday as news surfaced that former Vice President Mike Pence also had such records in his possession after he left office. Like Biden, Pence willingly turned them over to authorities after they were discovered during a search he requested, according to his lawyer and aides.

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