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‘I’m Just a Citizen’

That’s Rep. Anthony Weiner’s (D., N.Y.) defense for why he has not requested a police investigation into the alleged hacking of his Twitter account. Fox News’ Bret Baier told Weiner in an interview on Wednesday that it takes just “one call to the FBI,” who could then “within five minutes” determine the IP address from which the photo was sent and conclusively confirm or deny Weiner’s allegation of hacking. But the embattled Congressman apparently isn’t in any rush to publicly exonerate himself. “I’m just a citizen,” Weiner said. “I don’t think this is a federal case, I don’t think this is the second rising of bin Laden.”

 

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   06/02/11 13:02

By "citizen" he means "gigolo."

Bozy bozy bop...
...diddy bop
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   06/02/11 13:06

Heh, Weiner said 'rising'. Heh.

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   06/02/11 13:09

Damit, I'm just a surgeon Jim

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   06/02/11 13:11

Since he's a Congressman, why would the FBI wait to be asked? Isn't this, to some degree (if his excuses were true) a question of national security?

Weiner is a citizen, but a public citizen as well.

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   06/02/11 13:18

How many days into this and not one aspect of it has been blamed on Dick Cheney. Could we at least get a "warrantless wiretaps" reference for old times sake?

captcha: "stand up guy"

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   06/02/11 13:24

Breaker - I'm surprised Sarah Palin hasn't been blamed.

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   06/02/11 13:28

He calls his johnson Bin Laden?

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   06/02/11 13:48

Oh, my, that was really funny!

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   06/02/11 13:43

I blame the Underpants Gnome!

1. Take Photo of Underpants
2. ?
3. SCANDAL!

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JKB
   06/02/11 13:49

But wait, isn't this distracting him, a humble servant of the people, from important business of the Congress. I mean, we've a massive deficit, two wars and a kinetic operation going on, an economy in collapse, all while this "hack" is being a distraction does that no warrant making a federal case out of it?

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   06/02/11 13:52

When will people learn, the cover up does more damage than the crime.

Amusing catchpa "Full Monty" Even your software's making jokes!

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   06/02/11 15:00

As a "citizen", he could ask the wonks at Twitter to look into it for him, and give him a report on just what happened, second by second...just sayin'...

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   06/02/11 15:13

Actually, I think it is a federal case - that's what cybercrimes like this are, federal cases. That's why one reports them to the FBI.

And why does something have to be the "second rising of bin Laden" to be reported to authorities? If I see a suspicious charge on my credit card it's not the "second rising of bin Laden" but I still call the credit card company and report the item and ask them to investigate the charge. If someone picks my pocket it's not the "second rising of bin Laden" either, but I still report the theft to the cops.

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