Because of the heavy scrutiny placed on the facts uncovered in this investigation, accuracy is paramount.
One often repeated fact that seems questionable is the table of "code words", which purports to decrypt certain words used in Podesta’s emails including “pasta” and “walnut sauce”.
As an example of contradicting evidence, prior to the release of the wikleaks emails, several published articles referenced Podesta’s cooking hobby, specifically describing his favorite dishes including pasta with walnut sauce. Here is a quote from one of them:
"Podesta, the campaign chairman and a seasoned cook, made a pasta with walnut sauce for the dinner guests, which included reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Wall Street Journal, The Associated Press, Bloomberg, McClatchy, Reuters and several major TV networks."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/10/hillary-clinton-journalists-2016_n_7039814.html
While this doesn't completely discredit the purported code word list, it sure puts it into question. Again, the only point to this post is that researchers ought to be careful when relying on facts that haven’t been substantiated.
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golly ago
The only thing that can be confirmed is that Cheese Pizza and others that abbreviate to CP are used for years and year, all the other ones are hearsay and only found in urban dictionary. While we see something is up in the mails, many people need a little more to be convinced about it. If we can source more of the code words to strengthen the argument they actually are speaking in code this will greatly help to convince people.
Note that Cum Panda and Comet Pizza also form CP.