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SCANDAL: The CLINTON FOUNDATION has amended four years of tax forms due to "errors" in reporting foreign-government donations. A routine move? Hardly. It's more like another

attempt to clean up Hillary Clinton's past. The foundation, of course, styled it as mere accounting formality, a bookkeeping adjustment to make sure all the niceties of U.S. tax law

have been met. Nothing to see here. "There is no change in our bottom-line numbers: assets, liabilities and net assets," said Foundation President Donna Shalala, after refiling

taxes for the years 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. "There is nothing to suggest that the Foundation intended to conceal the receipt of government grants, which we report on our

website." Nothing? How about this: For years, the foundation used a charitable shell in Canada for the purpose of bundling donations from foreign nations and politicians. That charity,

taking advantage of Canada's strict privacy laws, then gave the foreign donations to the U.S.-based Clinton Foundation as one big bundle. Just another major donation to a worthy cause.

But who gave to the Canadian charity? More than 1,000 foreign leaders, national governments and others with reasons to curry favor with former President Bill and Secretary of State Hillary

Clinton. The Clinton Foundation claims it only "inadvertently" bundled the foreign donations. It also says it mistakenly counted money received for speeches by the Clintons as

"donations" rather than as revenue. All told, some $20 million in gifts were "amended" by the foundation's refilings. It was also revealed that the foundation raised

almost $178 million in 2014, while Hillary was still employed by the foundation. The media have tried to play all this off as some kind of "he said, she said," political duel

between the Democratic front-runner and Republicans. "Republicans have sought to draw attention to the (foundation's) spending, calling it a 'slush fund' for the Clintons

and arguing that donations received from foreign entities were given to curry favor with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state," The Hill noted in its coverage. Actually,

"slush fund" may be too kind. It's no coincidence that the years of "voluntary" tax refilings coincide with Clinton's years at State. Or that some of the 30,000

emails erased from her private email server might have held communications with foreign donors to the foundation — a clear violation of the law. As we wrote last week in our Capital Hill

blog, this has the "potential to be the Mother of all Clinton Scandals." The FBI already is investigating, which raises the question: Is the refiling just a gambit for presidential

candidate Hillary Clinton to appear as if she and the family foundation are operating within the law? To its credit, the Washington Post reported in February that foreign governments gave

millions to the Clinton Foundation while Hillary headed the State Department. They included Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Australia, Norway and the Dominican Republic. That seemed impossible, since

an agreement in 2008 that the foundation signed with the U.S. government had supposedly limited its foreign-government gifts. But, in fact, it "did not prohibit foreign countries with

interests before the U.S. government from giving money to the charity closely linked to the secretary of state," the Post wrote. In short, it was a sham — one that appears to have

enriched the Clinton clan to the tune of millions of dollars, while posing the foundation as a legitimate charity. If Hillary someday becomes president, she'll pick up right where her

husband left off — with a cloud of scandal over her head. RELATED: CLINTON FOUNDATION SCANDAL