COUGH, COUGH: Ethics wall between State, Clinton Foundation didn’t extend to staff.

While Clinton had signed an ethics agreement to largely remove herself from issues involving her family’s foundation after she became the nation’s top diplomat in 2009, the document did not apply to her aides at the State Department.

“I’m . . . scratching my head about why people inside the State Department didn’t think it was a good idea to insulate senior officials and their staff from any Clinton Foundation activities,” said Scott Amey, general counsel for the Project on Government Oversight. “Restrictions applied to Hillary, but those restrictions should have applied to other officials too.”

That’s a real head-scratcher, all right.