The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee has found herself under scrutiny again amid questions (raised in a forthcoming book and media reports) regarding The Clinton Foundation and foreign donors — and potential conflicts of interest during Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state.The foundation has owned up to making “mistakes,” but the acknowledgement may not be enough to stem her critics.

Hillary Clinton Struggles to Contain Media Barrage on Foreign Cash

Nick Gass – Politico

There is an underlying theme in these reports that has dogged the Clintons for decades and has freshly come to the fore early in Hillary Clinton’s second run for the White House — the couple’s secretive tendencies and their connections to big sums of cash …

The Clinton Foundation is not the only albatross for the Clinton campaign, which was formally launched less than two weeks ago. Hillary Clinton is facing a simmering controversy over her use of a personal email server while she was secretary of state, which was not standard protocol and fuels further allegations of secrecy.

Politico’s blog also included several strong denials by the Clinton camp. And a few days later the Clinton Foundation published a blog on its website:

A Commitment to Honesty, Transparency, and Accountability

Maura Pally – The Clinton Foundation

When Hillary Clinton was appointed Secretary of State, we took unprecedented steps to avoid potential conflicts of interest by going above and beyond what is required of any philanthropy and instituted voluntarily annual disclosure of all of our donors on our website. We also established a policy around the foreign government contributions we accept, recognizing that in order to continue our life improving work we rely on the contributions of government, as is the case with most large scale global charities …

The post goes on to to explain why Canadian donors will remain anonymous, and why it will refile some tax forms:

Our total revenue was accurately reported on each year’s form – our error was that government grants were mistakenly combined with other donations …

So yes, we made mistakes, as many organizations of our size do, but we are acting quickly to remedy them, and have taken steps to ensure they don’t happen in the future.

Another blogger wondered how the Clinton camp might strategize to limit the damage.

The Insiders: How Do the Clinton Scandals End?

Ed Rogers – The Washington Post

There are questions about her e-mails, Clinton Foundation donations, tax records, foreign influence — and that’s just this month …

So what are Team Clinton’s options on how to manage the campaign politics? Some problems are solved and others are managed. The scandals currently in the public view won’t be solved, so the Clinton brain trust will have to find a way to manage them. Doesn’t the constant drip, drip, drip of damaging revelations deflate her supporters? Maybe the Clinton managers’ hope is that voters will just become numb to all of the questionable dealings that swirl around her universe.

But I don’t see how Clinton’s supporters can be both numb and enthusiastic at the same time. Enthusiasm drives turnout. Numbness has got to suppress it.

Still another columnist pointed out that some of the negative narrative about the Clintons are coming from others who also benefit from the perks of power.

Opinion: Clinton Foundation cash undermines Hillary’s ‘champion’ claim

Paul Brandus – MarketWatch

And all of this has occurred, critics cry, while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and while she was busy gearing up for her presidential run. Outrage! You can’t be a prominent member of the United States government while getting cozy with donors, they charge. Why, some members of Congress warn, Hillary might actually get elected to high office one day, and how would that look?

On top of that, these lawmakers — who are not required to disclose donors of so-called “dark money” contributions from corporations, individuals and unions — complain that the Clinton Foundation needs to be more transparent about disclosing its donors.

Hypocrisy, where is thy sting?

Even so, it undercuts what will be a major theme of the Hillary campaign: that she’s a “champion” of those on the middle and lower rungs of society, and that the political system must be rid of what she calls “unaccountable money.”