“A female lobbyist had been turning up with him at fund-raisers, visiting his offices and accompanying him on a client’s corporate jet. Convinced the relationship had become romantic, some of his top advisers intervened to protect the candidate from himself — instructing staff members to block the woman’s access, privately warning her away and repeatedly confronting him, several people involved in the campaign said on the condition of anonymity.”
This appears to be more than just a good writer’s attempt to say the same thing with fresh prose. A central point has simply been removed. In the original, the greatest insinuated fear is that McCain was having an affair – indisputably a conflict of interest (among other things). In the re-characterization, it is merely that Iseman’s ubiquity gave the appearance of a conflict of interest.
clipped from: www.concernedjournalists.org