The e-mails indicate to me that key people were, and still are, acting very responsibly under pressure.
Every single suspected fault, including fuel leakage, was/is examined and categorized in accordance with well established aviation engineering practice and dealt with properly. Decisions to send the aircraft to the Middle East were easily made: is it fit to fly and defend itself? If yes, go. If not, it stays here and gets fixed. I have lost count of the number of days, weeks and occasionally months, that some jets spent in the hangar having leakage dealt with prior to deployment. There was absolutely no "It'll be all right, its only a little leak, lets send it" type of decisions, even when the pressure was at its greatest.
The leaks that pi$$ me off are the ones I've just read.
Sorry TD, but, with respect to you and yours, you have been fed rubbish.