Ok I really thought this was nothing but disinfo when this started, but I am starting to see pieces fit together. Tell me if I am wrong or have missed anything, there's more to this story but tried to slim it down to a relevant timeline.

2005 Sarah Latham quits job as Director of Public Affairs at Freud Communications to work with UK Labor Tessa Jowell. (important later)

February 10, 2007 Obama first announces run for office

1st May - 2007 - Tony Podesta AND James Alefantis/David Brock bought luxury houses,

3 May 2007 - Madeline McCann goes missing

4th of May 2007 - No Podesta emails exist prior to this

6th May 2007 Clarence Mitchell 25 year journalist, presenter, spin-doctor & director of the Media Monitoring Unit UK is sent to Portugal to provide consular support for the McCanns , only 3 days after she is reported missing. https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1463991

September 2007 Clarence Mitchell – Allowed to leave his full time Civil Service Post in order to work full time for the McCanns. This was also at a time when all types of manufactured stories was released in the British mainstream media. Anyone living in Britain would know, that when Maddie first went missing, for the first 3 years, there was a new story every week about her “suspects”. The interesting change of events came in September 2008.

2007 -2008 Efits of the suspects taken are then suppressed for 5 years with no real MSM explanation https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/1456741

September 2008 - Clarence Mitchell – Retained job working Part time for the McCanns (worth 30,000). However he immediately obtained a job working as a “Reputation Manager” of Freud International. Company that is run by Mathew Freud. Son of Sir Clement Freud. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2008/sep/02/marketingandpr.madeleinemccann

The pedophile Sir Clement Freud was outed as a pedophile who had an apartment near where Madeleine McCann went missing. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/sir-clement-freud-exposed-as-a-paedophile-as-police-urged-to-pro/

November 2008 Sara Latham ex director from Freud is taken on by the Obama / Democratic party transition team

November 2008 John Podesta serves as co-chair of same Obama transition team

October 14 2013 Efits with similarities to podestas released

1 January 2014 John Podesta becomes the Counselor to the President Obama

XXXX - 2016 Sara Latham ex-Freud becomes Podesta's chief of staff date not yet confirmed but definitely 2016 ready in time for the presidential run.

tl;dr - This has been one very very long power play with McCann dangling over the Podesta's all the while.