Re: Murder, She Wrote in Real Life

From:gpodesta@gmail.com To: podesta.mary@gmail.com CC: eric_soller@mckinsey.com, mpodesta@gmail.com, john.podesta@gmail.com, meganrouse@gmail.com Date: 2014-08-02 06:32 Subject: Re: Murder, She Wrote in Real Life

SSG Martinez's interest in the case is precisely why it will likely go unsolved. SSgt Martinez may never use the toaster (and even benefits from its demise) yet is nonetheless very upset about it. Similarly, I never knew we had a toaster until I learned of the safety violation, but similarly want desperately to catch the culprit. TSgt Garrison has two daughters. He was in Iraq on his oldest's first day in kindergarten. He will be in Qatar next month when his youngest goes to kindergarten. He wants to be there with them and not here with us. But he is stuck here with us and tries to find little things to enjoy--like toasted sandwiches for lunch. So despite the fact that the toaster is rarely used, it nonetheless has been jarring to all of us because if someone here is mean-spirited enough to take away TSgt Garrison's simple joys, what is stopping them from taking my peanut butter, for instance? Because the community here is so outraged, the punishment will likely be severe. My advice to the Command would be to immediately send the person home for misconduct, a career ending punishment. Whoever committed the crime lives and works amongst us and thus knows the outrage. So he or she will almost certainly keep the secret and we won't solve it, despite my best J.B. Fletcher efforts. While that is terribly sad, the whole episode has seemed to bring us together and actually may have served to improve morale in a strange way. So I'm grateful for that. I'll keep you posted if there are any developments and thanks for all the assistance. Sorry I can't give you more resolution! On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Mary Podesta <podesta.mary@gmail.com> wrote: > I like the early voting I am reading. But for me, Martinez is a mystery. > As a non-user of the toaster, why would he have any curiosity about the > weapon used for the crime or interest in solving it? > > > > I hope Jessica Fletcher Podesta in Qatar gets to the bottom of this soon. > Isn’t he supposed to wrap it all up for us in an hour? > > > > > > > > * -- Gabe Podesta