Private emails are private until the conman you are corresponding with makes them public by publishing them on the internet. MD4BUSH is obviously a reporter trolling for stories. In the absence of a legitimate story, he created one.
So-called reporters from the Washington Post seems to be trolling websites alot lately
Let's give MD4BUSH a chance to defend himself before we jump to any conclusions about who he is. He very well may have posted the full exchange in order to make sure it was available here when the WaPo selectively quoted from it. (As I'm writing this, MD4BUSH's account has been suspended, so this might not happen).
The underlining of incriminating passages is admittedly suspicious. The first Freepmails were posted on a now pulled thread at 11:05PM on 2/8. The underlining was put in a response to that same thread at 11:13PM on 2/8.