Rep. Anthony Weiner repeatedly declined to answer questions Tuesday about a lewd photograph that showed up on his Twitter feed over the weekend, an incident the New York Democrat has said was the work of a hacker.
Weiner told reporters that he had answered enough of their questions about the matter and that the incident was “a distraction.”
“Look, I’m not going to allow this to be what I talk about all week,” the seven-term lawmaker said on his way into a closed-door meeting of House Democrats on Tuesday night. “That’s the idea of a distraction; I’m not going to let it be successful.”
Weiner, 46, has hired a lawyer to look into the matter. Several senior Democrats, including House Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer (Md.) and Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), have defended him, but some conservative writers want him to explain some of the details of the incident.
Sgt. Kimberly Schneider, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Capitol Police, said Tuesday that the Capitol Police force “does not have an active, open investigation” into the alleged hacking. Lindsay Godwin, a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Washington Field Office, said the office had no information to provide.
BigGovernment.com, the Web site of conservative commentator Andrew Breitbart, first reported on the tweeted photo of a man’s underwear-clad groin, which was addressed to a journalism student in the Seattle area. Neither Weiner nor his spokesman has said whether the photo was of Weiner.
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