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Rep. Weiner Struggles to Explain Origin of Lewd Twitter Photo

Rep. Anthony Weiner struggled to explain how a picture of somebody’s bulging underwear briefly appeared on his Twitter account, claiming in a back-to-back string of interviews that he was clearly hacked — but hinting the photograph could have been an image of him. 

“I have photographs. I do not know what photographs are out there in the world of me,” he stated in one cable news interview, asked whether he had ever snapped a pic like that of himself. 

In another interview, Weiner acknowledged “it could be” the case that one of his private pics spilled onto the Internet. Or, he said, one could have been manipulated or pulled in from “somewhere else.” 

In interview after interview, Weiner insisted Wednesday he did not send the pic but at the same time could not state whether the pic was his. 

Asked by Fox News about the origin of the image, Weiner said: “We’re concerned about saying anything definitively.” 

Asked the same question again, Weiner snapped: “You know … we have been sitting down for a brief moment and you are already asking if there are photos of me in my drawers.” 

Weiner sought to downplay the entire incident and put it to rest after days of intense coverage. The New York Democratic congressman has raised questions by not calling in the Capitol Police or other federal authorities to investigate what he claims is some combination of a hack and a prank. 

A former Justice Department computer crimes prosecutor stated it would not cost much to request an investigation from the FBI. The former official stated if Weiner had called the FBI when the story broke, the public would already know where the Tweet originated. 

But Weiner indicated he was not interested in making a big, federal case out of the matter.
Rather, he stated he is called in an Internet security firm and a law firm to take a “hard look” at the incident and find out what happened. 

“I know for a fact that my account was hacked,” Weiner told Fox News. “I can definitively state that I did not send this.” 

Weiner’s explanations on Thursday started to draw criticism from Capitol Hill. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., told Fox News that people “are sick of seeing their elected officials tied up in scandals” and questioned Weiner’s claims. 

“There’s a lot of explaining without a lot of clarity,” Cantor said. 

The pic in question was deleted within minutes of being sent. BigGovernment.com first reported that it was tweeted to a Seattle woman, later identified as Gennette Cordova. 

Weiner, 46, is married to Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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