FBI Finds Classified Document During Search of Mike Pence's Indiana Home

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  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

    -4% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    74% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"In his letter to the Archives, Mr. Jacob suggested law enforcement treated Mr. Pence's case differently than those involving Messrs. Biden and Trump, saying he thinks the Justice Department had bypassed the standard procedures in requesting to directly take the documents rather than have them first sent to the National Archives."
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-24% Liberal
"Last month, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed another special counsel, Robert Hur, to examine why classified documents meant to be housed in secure facilities were kept at Mr. Biden's private office and home."
Positive
8% Conservative
"Mr. Biden's supporters have pointed to his team's cooperation and swift moves to inform the Justice Department of the documents' discovery as an important difference."
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8% Conservative
"Mr. Biden's aides have made similar statements regarding documents found at the president's premises."
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6% Conservative
"Those searches came upon agreement with Mr. Biden's attorneys and didn't require the FBI to seek a search warrant."
Positive
4% Conservative
"A special counsel, Jack Smith, has been overseeing that probe as well as one into the efforts of Mr. Trump and his allies to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss and has separately subpoenaed Mr. Pence for information as part of that probe."
Positive
2% Conservative
"In January, following similar revelations from President Biden's legal team, Mr. Pence's lawyers disclosed they had discovered several documents with classification markings at his home and turned them over to authorities."
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-6% Liberal
"The FBI has conducted at least three searches of Mr. Biden's homes and former office, including his Rehoboth, Del., beach house on Feb. 1."
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-6% Liberal
"While the search in Rehoboth yielded no classified documents, FBI agents removed six batches of documents in a daylong search of Mr. Biden's home in Wilmington, Del., on Jan. 20."
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-6% Liberal
"Mr. Trump's supporters have also accused the Justice Department of a double standard in treatment, citing the resort to a search warrant in August."
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-16% Liberal
"In his letter to the Archives, Mr. Jacob suggested law enforcement treated Mr. Pence's case differently than those involving Messrs. Biden and Trump, saying he thinks the Justice Department had bypassed the standard procedures in requesting to directly take the documents rather than have them first sent to the National Archives."
Positive
2% Conservative
"In his letter to the Archives, Mr. Jacob suggested law enforcement treated Mr. Pence's case differently than those involving Messrs. Biden and Trump, saying he thinks the Justice Department had bypassed the standard procedures in requesting to directly take the documents rather than have them first sent to the National Archives."
Positive
2% Conservative
"In contrast, the probe into documents at Mr. Trump's Florida resort has escalated over more than a year to include a criminal investigation into possible obstruction, among other potential crimes, and spurred a warrant-backed search of the property last August."
Negative
-30% Liberal
"The disclosures regarding Messrs. Biden and Pence came as the Justice Department has been investigating former President Donald Trump over the handling of classified material after he left the White House at his Mar-a-Lago resort."
Positive
6% Conservative
"The disclosures regarding Messrs. Biden and Pence came as the Justice Department has been investigating former President Donald Trump over the handling of classified material after he left the White House at his Mar-a-Lago resort."
Positive
6% Conservative

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38% : In his letter to the Archives, Mr. Jacob suggested law enforcement treated Mr. Pence's case differently than those involving Messrs. Biden and Trump, saying he thinks the Justice Department had "bypassed the standard procedures" in requesting to directly take the documents rather than have them first sent to the National Archives.

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