"The US State  Department and Mr Wisner himself have now both claimed that his remarks were  made in a "personal capacity". But there is nothing "personal" about Mr Wisner's  connections with the litigation firm Patton Boggs, which openly boasts that it  advises "the Egyptian military, the Egyptian Economic  Development Agency, and has handled arbitrations and  litigation on the [Mubarak] government's behalf in Europe and the US". Oddly,  not a single journalist raised this extraordinary connection with US government  officials – nor the blatant conflict of interest it  appears to represent."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
