Donors whose contributions to Hillary Clinton were bundled by Norman Hsu were to have their contributions returned to them. However, the Clinton campaign will take back those donations from those donors.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose campaign is returning $850,000 in contributions linked to disgraced fundraiser Norman Hsu, indicated Wednesday that donors who contributed that money could donate to her presidential campaign once again.

"We're not asking that that be done," she said in a teleconference with reporters. "But I believe that the vast majority of those 200- plus donors are perfectly capable of making up their own minds about what they will or won't do going forward."

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Clinton's campaign said this week that any donors whose money was returned could donate once again if they confirm to the campaign that the contributions are from their own personal funds.

Which means, of course, that the tainted funds will be coming back. After all, a failure to send back the cash could be construed that the original donation was not their own funds to begin with, opening them up to greater scrutiny from federal investigators.

In other words, the Clinton campaign is only claiming to divest itself of the tainted funds – but is really going to be keeping them. The appearance of propriety is apparently more important to them than actual propriety.

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