Podesta has some messages where he uses code words.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/32795
That's why people started digging around in the first place.
If Conspirators hold you capable of everything, its sort of flattering - in a darth Vader, Astmatic sort of way..
The only thing that can be debated at this point is if / how to decode the message. I don't believe someone could make a good faith argument saying that it's not an encoded message.