# Congressman Anthony Weiner: My Twitter account was hacked! The weiner photo is not mine!

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 31, 2011, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853 "2011-05-31T14:40:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\
**Post date:** [June 1, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congressman-anthony-weiner-my-twitter-account-was-hacked-the-weiner-photo-is-not-mine/583853/30 "2011-06-01T18:21:34Z")

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> Rep. Anthony Weiner says he “can’t say with certitude” that the lewd photo of a man’s crotch sent using his Twitter account to one of his followers isn’t of him.
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> “I didn’t send that picture out,” Weiner said in an interview with NBC News.
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> “That’s not a picture of you?” reporter Luke Russert asked.
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> Weiner responded: “You know, I can’t say with certitude.”

[Link.](http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56035.html)

I’m going to make a prediction - Congressman Weiner will issue an apology for this incident sometime in the next two weeks. Once the story starts changing like this, it is to cover up an embarrassing truth.

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