Response from +OctoBoss
Nonsense. The Smith family seen one man. Their initial descriptions can be read here:
http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/MARTIN_SMITH.htm
The police put more weight in the Jane Tanner sighting of another man who was right beside the apartments.
Private investigator, Henri Exton, of Oakley International, decided it would be worth talking to the Smith's and getting E-fit sketches. Two different members of that family gave description of ONE man, making two E-fits. That is not an assumption, it is what Henri Exton says himself. There is no big secret about that here in the UK.
When Exton finished his report he suggested that the McCann's had maybe left the door unlocked and Maddie wandered off herself and taken by an opportunist. The McCann's didn't like that suggestion and also did not put much weight in the Smith sighting so they squashed that report.
However, when the UK police were given more funding, the new team felt they should include the Smith sighting of one man. Especially since by that time, the Tanner sighting had been identified as a innocent person. People used to say the Smith sighting exactly matched Gerry McCann. People see what they want to see.
There is zero evidence that the Podesta's were in Portugal at the time. If you trace back the source for that claim, it takes you to a person online calling themselves ' FBIanon', who could be anybody.
MA is a world famous artist that did a performance art entitled Spirit Cooking. Occult and spirituality does not equate to evil. She held a normal dinner many years later using the same name. Tony Podesta, well known in the art world, attended, but John did not.
Tony and John are older gentlemen in a busy public arena. So it is very likely that they will know some people that did bad things, such as Hastert. Most of us will in our lifetime.
Where does John give advice to dodge paedophile convictions?...make sure that email was sent by John before replying.
Also, please link to where law enforcement give documents that show that 'code'. And not 'cheese pizza' because that term was never used in the emails. It is clear that the 'code' was made up online. For example, people read an email about a Ligurian pasta dish with walnut sauce, and couldn't understand why anyone would have walnut sauce with pasta. They therefore decided that 'walnut' must mean little coloured children. Yet, here is John Podesta on video cooking that exact dish and making the walnut sauce in a blender.
http://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a-running-conversation-with-john-podesta
Podesta is well known for his cooking and some of the other emails make sense once you know that, and explore other background emails and articles online. For example, TD Stern sent an email saying he was dreaming about John's hot dog stand in Hawaii. In this article from 2000, Tony explains that John (the avid cook), sometimes talks about retiring from politics and having a simple hot dog stand in Hawaii. So clearly TD Stern has also heard John say that and because he is about to undergo weeks of hard work, he makes reference to it:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/07/03/for-the-presidents-4th-chief-of-staff-a-measure-of-success/4f7a333b-0e12-4815-a749-fa7ff35c82f1/?utm_term=.507f68123e9e
So forget Snopes, because they are your source and nothing to do with me