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How classified documents became a schoolgirl’s show-and-tell
AP News ^ | 1/26/2023 | CALVIN WOODWARD

Posted on 01/26/2023 9:08:15 AM PST by Vendome

The Carter files fell into Kristin’s hands through a somewhat meandering route.

Two days after the 1980 debate, businessman Alan Preble found the papers in his Cleveland hotel room, apparently left behind by Carter press secretary Jody Powell. 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. But for social studies class, Kristin “thought they’d be real interesting. I thought they’d be great, too.”

Teacher Jim DeLisio’s eyes popped when he saw the warnings on the documents inside. Among them: “Classified, Confidential, Executive” and “Property of the United States Government.”

“I truly didn’t want to look at it,” he said then. “I was just too … scared. I didn’t want to know.”

Curiosity got the better of him. That night, he said, he and his wife and daughter pored over the documents, containing “everything you’d want to know from A to Z” on world and U.S. developments. One folder was marked “Iran.” Libya was also in the mix.

Unable to reach Kristin’s family by phone, DeLisio the next day called the FBI, which swiftly retrieved the papers.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ever; what
AP is trying to downplay the docudrama.
1 posted on 01/26/2023 9:08:15 AM PST by Vendome
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To: Vendome

Carter also left debate prep notes behind. Reminds me of Hunter Biden leaving his laptop at the shop and his crack pipe in the car rental.


2 posted on 01/26/2023 9:11:28 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (But yet the Son of man, when he cometh, shall he find, think you, faith on earth? (Luke 18:8))
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To: Vendome

Ya, let’s make Biden’s theft for personal gain seem like no big deal.......


3 posted on 01/26/2023 9:14:47 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: G Larry

The narrative does have one thing in common with Joe:

There is, at least, a little girl in the story....


4 posted on 01/26/2023 9:16:49 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: G Larry

Twenty-five years ago we were told that lying under oath was no big deal, even a good thing for society, when Slick Willy Clinton was caught on tape doing it in a deposition about Monica Lewinsky.


5 posted on 01/26/2023 9:18:59 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Dr. Sivana

“and his crack pipe in the car rental”

Not just a crack pipe but also his wallet and a Secret Service badge!

So he wasn’t just running around with an illegal firearm but also with an illegal badge so he could probably impersonate law enforcement. Everyone seems to forget that.


6 posted on 01/26/2023 9:19:07 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Vendome

Woodward ?

Really AP ?

Must be real
if it’s written by a AP Urinalist named
.
WOODWARD !!

CHAFF,(spit)

.


7 posted on 01/26/2023 9:23:03 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Veteran )
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To: G Larry

I think that the most important issue would be the subject matter of the classified documents.

Are the Biden documents revealing of his widespread illegalities in the Ukraine.

And, I’ll betcha most of the Trump documents had to do with the Comey et al conspiracy to take down the Trump administration - a legally elected government of the USA. He probably kept them away from the National Archives knowing once there, they would mysteriously disappear.


8 posted on 01/26/2023 9:23:15 AM PST by elpadre (nd )
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To: Vendome

Ridicule everyone. That way nobody is accountable. That’s not how laws are supposed to work. The everyone did it defense.


9 posted on 01/26/2023 9:24:31 AM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Forget "Global Warming", new grants are for "Galaxy Dimming")
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To: Boogieman
Data points:

Bill Clinton once lost the nuclear codes for months, and a 'comedy of errors' kept anyone from finding out

Jimmy Carter once sent launch codes to the cleaner, and other scary tales of the ‘nuclear football’

Conclusion:

Republican presidents can't be trusted with the launch codes!

10 posted on 01/26/2023 9:28:39 AM PST by null and void (Stupid but believable? Probably satire. Too stupid to believe? Probably reality here in clown world!)
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To: Vendome

It’s a diversion from the real issue of chinese paying off the democrats


11 posted on 01/26/2023 9:32:00 AM PST by kvanbrunt2
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To: elpadre
Trump's documents were DECLASSIFIED....by him, as he had that authority.

We've already seen that Hunter used classified info to enrich the family.

12 posted on 01/26/2023 9:32:57 AM PST by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: Vendome

All current and former presidents and vice presidents as well as their family members should have their homes searched for Classified documents.

That means everyone from Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter and from Shasha Obama to the Harrison Ruffin Tyler, the grandson of President John Tyler.


13 posted on 01/26/2023 9:33:44 AM PST by Round Earther
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To: Vendome

AP using the everybody does it defense for Biden. Sick!


14 posted on 01/26/2023 9:56:18 AM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.i later)
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To: Vendome

The FBI quickly determined that the documents were left by Jody Powell after finding cocaine residue all over the hotel room. It sure wasn’t parmesan cheese.


15 posted on 01/26/2023 1:28:23 PM PST by cquiggy
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