• We’re going to press February 1, and we predict that this year the groundhog will come out of its burrow with classified documents.
• Days after ripping President Biden for illegally retaining classified information from his time as Obama’s vice president, a chastened Mike Pence admitted that he had illegally retained classified information from his time as Trump’s vice president. In the study of his Indiana home, what his advisers describe as a “small amount” of classified intelligence turned up. His private office at a political-advocacy group appears to be clean. Pence notified the National Archives and Records Administration (which alerted the FBI, whose agents promptly claimed the documents). He also reported the discovery to Congress. Taking a page from an old playbook, Pence told an interviewer that “mistakes were made” — though he would not say by whom, while, of course, taking “full responsibility.” The matter is under Justice Department investigation, but the “everybody does it” insouciance of the Pence and Biden misadventures makes a classified-documents prosecution of Trump highly unlikely.
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