US Official: "Wisner was speaking in his capacity as a private citizen..."

" The Obama administration has moved to distance itself from remarks made by Obama's special Egypt envoy Frank Wisner Saturday that Mubarak needs to stay in power as president to approve certain constitutional reforms. 
"The president must stay in office in order to steer those changes through," Wisner told a Munich security conference via videolink, according to Agence France-Presse. "President Mubarak's continued leadership is critical."
An unnamed U.S. official, however, later told the AFP that Wisner was speaking in his capacity as a private citizen about Mubarak's future role -- and not for the administration which sent him to Cairo last week at Hillary Clinton's suggestion. 
The messaging confusion came after reports that Egyptian officials have been discussing the elder Mubarak possibly assuming a figurehead role as a way to ease him from power during the transition..."