Per The Politico:

John McCain's campaign asked a prominent Republican consultant, Craig Shirley, to leave his official campaign role Thursday after a Politico inquiry about Shirley's dual role consulting for the campaign and for an independent 527 group opposing the Democratic presidential candidates. The campaign also released a new conflict-of-interest policy barring such arrangements.

Shirley, a conservative public relations veteran, doubled as a consultant to McCain and to Stop Her Now, a 527 group barred from coordinating its activities with presidential campaigns. He is not currently on the McCain campaign’s payroll but will also step down from his role on McCain’s Virginia Leadership Team said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers.

"If you're working for a 527 involved in the presidential race, you won't have a named role in our campaign,” said Rogers.

Under the new policy, a copy of which was provided to Politico, “no person with a McCain campaign title or position may participate in a 527 or other independent entity that makes public communications that support or oppose any presidential candidate.”

Notice how you cannot have a "named role" in the McCain Campaign if involved with a group like the Swift Boat Veterans For Truth. Any other role, like HUGE funder, would seem to be cool.

Below, Progress USA has been kind enough to help McCain out in weeding out any advisors who may have "conflicts" (here we have Charlie Black's disclosure form):

NAME:

Charlie Black

CAMPAIGN ROLE:

Senior Political Adviser

Have you ever registered as a federal lobbyist?
Yes

Have you ever been a registered foreign agent?

Yes

Please list all of the foreign governments, political and other interests you lobbied for:

Jonas Savimbi (leader of UNITA rebels in Angola)
Stepan Matirosyan (Armenia)
News Corp. (Australia)
Government of the Bahamas
Government of the Barbados
Government of Bermuda
Horsahm (Canada)
Nordion International (Canada)
Forest Product Association of Canada
Chinese National Off-Shore Oil Corporation
Noemi Sanin (Colombia)
Institute for Financial and Fiscal Studies of Curacao
Government of Cyprus
Government of the Republic of Djibouti
Government of the Dominican Republic
Government of Ecuador
Government of El Salvador
Executive Hydroelectric Commission of the Lempa River (El Salvador)
Government of Equatorial Guinea
Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. (Great Britain)
National Convention for Reconstruction and Development (Great Britain)
Government of Greece
Government of Haiti
Embassy of the Republic of Iraq
Vittoria Consultants (Isle of Man)
Magal Security Systems Ltd. (Israel)
Fiat Ferroviaria (Italy)
Eitaro Itoyama (Japan)
Government of Kenya
Intercultural Association of Korea
Korea Silo Company, Ltd.
Adcom Group (Lebanon)
Government of Liberia
Maldives Democratic Party
Government of Nigeria
His Excellency Ibrahim Sarninu Turaki, Governor, Jigawa State, Nigeria
Minpeco U.S.A. Inc. (Peru)
Government of Peru
Union for National Action (Philippines)
Chamber of Philippine Manufacturers, Exporters & Tourism
League of Leaders for Philippine Development
Luso American Foundation for International Relations (Portugal)
Russian Information Agency
Government of Somalia
Government of St. Lucia
Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the U.S. (Taiwan / China)
Thailand
Government of the Republic of Togo
Agency for Humanitarian Technologies (Ukraine)
Government of Zaire

Please list any clients you think could potentially cause a conflict of interest for the McCain Campaign:

Yukos Oil
Philip Morris
JP Morgan
Johnson & Johnson
G-Tech
United Technologies
Washington Mutual Bank
U.S. Smokeless Tobacco
Occidental Petroleum Group
Accenture
Fluor
AT&T
Lincoln Group
Lockheed Martin
National Association of Mortgage Brokers
Ocean Duke Corp.
SAP America

Please list the times you have lobbied Senator McCain or his office:
NOT DISCLOSED

You may also remember the story we broke here at The Campaign Silo about Charlie Black's connections to The Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Charlie may have some serious 'splainin to do to his boss (probably not though, as exceptions for lobbyists are the McCain Campaign's forte).