Talk:MacDonald email leak

AJ gets congratulations
From: AJMacDonald  Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2013 2:31 PM To: Furst, Eugene P CIV (US) Subject: Re: Follow-up, 20130820

As you see I'm far from this now, but I know our guys did their best.

Sincerely, Jamie

On Aug 22, 2013, at 2:14 PM, "Furst, Eugene P CIV (US)"  wrote:

>

> By the way, saw your latest success, my congratulations. Good job.

> http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/syrian-activists-accuse-government-o=f-deadly-chemical-attack-near-damascus/2013/08/21/aea157e6-0a50-11e3-89fe-a=bb4a5067014_story.html

> Regards,

> -Gene

Wives chatting
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:59:42 -0700 From: jjlmgmac@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Let's talk To: maryshapiro@hotmail.com

Hi Mary; I saw it either and got afraid very much. But Tony comforted me. He said the kids weren't hurt, it was done for cameras. So you don't worry, my dear.

Jennifer

Response
Good Morning Jennifer:

You see, I'm still thinking about those Syrian kids. Thanks God, they are alive. I hope they got a kind of present or some cash.

Analysis
I do not think these people really know anything. They just assume – like EVERYBODY ELSE – that the rebels did it. They then go on to congratulate themselves for the good work.

The wive is lying. Of course the hostage children were killed. They are just trying to comfort themselves and avoiding guilt.

If this is really what all the US people THINK, then it puts the criminality of the US "assessment" on a new level. -- Petri Krohn (talk) 02:16, 1 September 2013 (UTC)


 * I disagree. If those mails are genuine they are quite telling. I added the relevant bits from the other mail conversation. Those guys are Military Intelligence. AJ was a higher up at Defense Intelligence Agency as he outlines earlier to the other guy, and that is apparently where he is "far away from now" but knows that "our guys did their best". And the wives are quite specific as well. Remember the video where they showed one girl in several positions and the people at the pile of children talking about how they arrange it for the camera? The unnaturally blown-up number of children in that Government "assessment"? We shouldn't write off that especially the children scenes were staged, and that can mean they were "just" drugged and are indeed alive. --CE (talk) 09:33, 1 September 2013 (UTC)


 * LinkedIn profile for Anthony J MacDonald Quite impressive. Last job until July this year: Director of Operations and Plans, G-2, Department of the Army Staff. Before that, all kinds of "War on Terror" Task Force stuff and high-level HUMINT collection and coordination. --CE (talk) 11:01, 1 September 2013 (UTC)