The idea of replacing Mr. Biden with Mrs. Clinton had long been rumored, but the journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, in their new book, "Double Down," provide a detailed description of the effort inside the senior circle of Obama advisers.
But the possibility of a Trump withdrawal does appear to have been broached in senior Republican circles.
SKB "acceptance officers" like Ms. Nordholm held town meetings to explain the project; the company financed local groups, like soccer clubs and senior citizen circles; and it brought in school classes and other groups to visit the temporary site.
Outspoken, aggressive and known for his dislike of bureaucratic rigidity, General Downing was recognized within senior administration circles as a champion of military action to oust Saddam Hussein from Iraq.
If the decision on al-Khawaja had gone the other way it would have provoked an outburst of anti-Strasbourg sentiment within senior legal circles and among government ministers.
The move was greeted with surprise in senior police circles, where Dick is respected for her sure-footedness at a time when Britain faces its most serious terror threat in years.
There are not many black or ethnic-minority figures moving in senior Conservative circles and the allegations could be extraordinarily damaging, not just for Lewis personally, but for Johnson and the whole Cameron project.
Last week, HSJ reported that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's safe staffing committee pressed ahead with recommending minimum nurse ratios in English accident and emergency departments despite opposition in government and senior NHS circles.
A post-nationalist SNP has always been implicit in senior Nationalist circles, and if it can be made explicit, articulated and developed then it has within it the prospect to remake the entire landscape of Scottish politics and carry its ripples to Westminster.
I'm told by one source that this is already being discussed in senior Republican circles.
