Here is the original email invitation from Wikileaks:
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/17313
I wanted to take a closer look at the property where this event happened. (The address is in the email). Here is a composite photo of what I observed:
https://sli.mg/uT450t
A few things struck me after taking a closer look at the house and considering the implications of the invitation.
1) Who schedules a regular cookout in late December in cold Washington DC? (This is supposed to be the 3rd annual event). Very odd.
2) The house is very narrow so not ideally suited for large gatherings. It appears that the invitation went out to many people: “you should bring all children that are available”; “3rd annual cookout”; invitation is from and to the same email, implying that guests were bcc’d. This is something you frequently do when you have many invitees. My rough guess is at least 30 guests would have been there. Possibly as many as 50 to 100.
3) They were going to be cooking “an entire suckling pig” presumably. (Unless they had it delivered???) But delivery would be very strange since: a) who the hell delivers entire roasted pigs in Washington DC; and b) it’s supposed to be a cookout!
4) The only place to cookout would be a small deck roughly the size of the garage (see above photo).
Conclusion: I just don’t see an entire pig on a spit in December roasting on this tiny deck in the middle of the most urban section of DC (I know this area well) with dozens of people milling about. This makes no sense at all. Not saying it’s impossible. Just unlikely.
What is more likely is that the event was held indoors and that “cookout” and “entire suckling pig” are also coded talk, just as we suspect that there were no actual handmade tortillas flown in from Mexico, because who the fuck would be that stupid? Not even overpaid, self-important, DC wonks with PHDs are THAT stupid.
Also, interesting to note: this property is very close to Tony Podesta’s DC mansion with the creepy artwork. It’s also very close to where Obama is rumored to live after he leaves the White House. Basically all 3 places are in the same very posh DC neighborhood, which is close to Capitol Hill, the WH and K Street.
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LostandFound ago
http://www.homevisit.com/mobile/iPad.asp?id=38553 - pic of the garden patio here id say its just large enough. Heres a real brain teaser Brock and Alefantis bought a house in exact same area, same street at least, also 6 bed for around the same price back in 2007. Last records I can find for that property are a sale in 2009 http://archive.is/Ab3Xp
edit: Alefantis and Brock purchased 2310 California ST NW Washington, DC 20008-1637 not the same address but still only a few minutes away.
The_Periodic_Fable ago
good find.
There is an interesting patio pic there that shows it to be just barely big enough. But with dozens of guests? And a whole pig (presumably needing a HUGE BBQ) running for, what, 6 or 10 hours for a party that begins at 3 pm, in December? To me it does not add up. That house is big enough for a fairly large party. But not really for an "annual" pig roast in December. Also remember that these kinds or real estate "glamour" pics tend to exaggerate the space sizes. The arial view show the patio to be the same size as the garage. And that is one small ass garage. European size.
popezandy ago
Definitely not the time of year for a pig roast, not the place to jam a bunch of people and "all the children that are available". Also, the wording on this seems anormal. Bring your kids, right? Not, bring all the children that are available. Like, bring your kids, their friends, and the ones you've got in your basement? I dunno, maybe a stretch but I appreciate this bit of groundwork
lilwagon ago
Any city that has Asian residents will have restaurants that will deliver a whole pig. Just sayin'
Not throwing shade... but that's a thing.
popezandy ago
It defeats the point of a roast not to have a roast. I'm still gonna say though, you don't talk about bringing the kids like that. Bring every available child. shudders
LostandFound ago
I agree, theres something not right about all this.