That someone was 13-year-old Kristin Preble. She took the papers to school as a show-and-tell project for her eighth grade class. Preble took them to his Franklin Park home, where they sat for more than three years as a faintly appreciated keepsake. "We had looked through them but didn't think they were important," Carol Preble, Kristin's mother, said back then, apparently unimpressed by the classified markings. Debategate faded, but not the concern over how classified documents are handled by those in power.

Source: Libya Today January 27, 2023 20:20 UTC