The latest batch of Podesta emails include concerns within Clinton's inner circle about her positioning on key issues as well as the private server email controversy that has dogged the campaign since March of last year.
However, he claimed Chelsea Clinton was "involved in the Benghazi situation" as well as her family's charitable foundation, and he referred to the private email server controversy that dogged candidate Hillary Clinton during much of the 2016 presidential campaign. .
8. Hillary Clinton is constantly involved in scandal and either the victim of a "surreal witch hunt" according to James Carville, a conspiracy among intelligence agencies (a Clinton spokesman says the government has "competing views" on what is classified, apparently making it alright for a retroactively classified email to be on a private server), or controversy.
It is only when eminent domain is used for projects characterized as "public-private partnerships" that controversy arises.
The current controversy surrounds private consultancies around Westminster.
Her role in that disaster is still a matter of public controversy and private regret.
At the same time there is increasing public controversy and private uncertainty about the legitimacy of assisted dying in certain circumstances.
In the 1991 book that popularised that term, the sociologist James Davison Hunter recorded a European friend expressing surprise that Americans "typically conduct their lives in private and with little controversy".
With everyone from national governments to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development pressing universities across Europe to raise more of their funds from private donations, the recent controversy in Britain could be a harbinger of things to come.
The venerable Coutts bank, home of the Queen's personal accounts, has been drawn into the mounting controversy about private banking with an admission that its Swiss arm is under investigation for aiding and abetting tax evasion.
