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. “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. The discovery fed into a broader investigation by a Democratic-led congressional committee of the official Carter papers obtained by the winning Reagan campaign. Debategate faded, but not the concern over how classified documents are handled by those in power.

Source: Libya Today January 26, 2023 14:33 UTC