Does anyone NOT have classified documents at home?

Mike Pence is the latest top official who held classified docs at home; the US and Germany are finally sending tanks to Ukraine.

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Classified documents found at Mike Pence's home

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• Aides to former Vice President Mike Pence found about a dozen classified documents at his Indiana residence last week, the latest discovery of sensitive material at the home of a top official. [CNN / Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb, and Evan Perez]
• Classified documents have been found at the homes of both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in recent months. Biden faces a special counsel investigation into how classified materials ended up at his Delaware home and private office in DC. [Associated Press / Jill Colvin]
• The latest discovery prompted questions about how the US government handles classified files; Pence insisted he returned all documents before leaving the White House. [The Hill / Brett Samuels]
• The Justice Department and the FBI are reviewing the materials to determine what information the documents contained. [ABC News]
• Pence and Biden’s cases differ significantly from Trump’s. The former both turned over documents voluntarily, whereas the FBI seized hundreds of documents in Trump’s possession after a grand jury subpoena and months of repeated attempts. [New York Times / Maggie Haberman]

Western tanks for Ukraine

• On Wednesday, President Joe Biden announced that the US is sending 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine amid pressure from European allies. [NBC News / Summer Concepcion and Caroline Kenny]
• The decision came hours after Germany confirmed it would send 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to help Kyiv fend off Russia’s invasion. [Reuters / Nandita Bose, Andreas Rinke, and Tom Balmforth]
• Unlike air defense systems previously provided by the West, Ukraine can use the tanks to launch offensives and try to retake territory from Russia. [CNN / Nick Paton Walsh]
• While Biden insisted on Wednesday that the tanks presented “no offensive threat to Russia,” Kremlin officials said the tanks would escalate global tensions. [The Hill]

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“I don’t understand people taking these documents home. If you do that, you’re supposed to have a safe designated for storage and you have to have a proper briefcase to carry it in.”

[House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) on the classified document discoveries / CNN]

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