Adm. Art McDonald tells colleagues he’s exonerated, should return to top military post According to Macdonald, military police had interviewed dozens of people from the event where she alleged the sexual misconduct took place, and that “several witnesses” corroborated her story.Macdonald said one of the witnesses was a duty officer who was sober at the time of the alleged assault, and had corroborated her version of events to military police.Global News spoke to another senior Navy officer who was present when the alleged assault took place, who told Global News MacDonald is telling the truth and that he saw what happened.