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June 01, 2011

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Jeff

2 words ...

Fisheye Lens

MayBee

If Anthony Weiner would stick to tasteful portraits and lawn sculptures, he would not be having this problem.

Porchlight

Ha, MayBee!!

lyle

Apparently Weiner is unfamiliar with the First Rule of Holes.

windansea

this is a pretty plausible theory on how someone could have hacked his yfrog account without a password and results in a tweet

Lee Stranahan thinks it could be true but does not explain Weiner's behavior

they want to pin this on the patriotUSA guy who first found the tweet, but he seems open to talking to FBI etc

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2011/06/weiner-affair-close-to-solution-but-i.html

Porchlight

Anyone see this on CNN?

adamsbaldwin Adam Baldwin Ratcheting it up, @RepWeiner accused @AndrewBreitbart of defamation LIVE on CNN w/Wolf Blitzer. ~ #Weinergate 12 minutes ago
windansea

http://leestranahan.com/a-new-bizarre-yet-logical-answer-to-weinergate

clarice Feldman

I love MayBee.

Make of that what you will.

Janet

Weiner did not directly respond to a question about whether he knows who is responsible for the incident.

Maybe Weiner & his staff (I know, loaded word!) were joking around in their man panties. Perhaps him & his staff pick out who Weiner will follow based on how pretty they are. Sounds like what a group of guys would do.

Extraneus

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Porchlight

windansea,

I know they want to blame it on the patriotUSA guy, but there is still no explanation as to how he would have gotten the pic, and due to lack of denial I think we can assume the pic is of Weiner.

matt

in Tokyo today, and up early after a botched effort to get down to Tsukiji to shoot the fish market. Pouring rain, dammit. Been working on a photoessay for a number of years.

Mel, you've seen some of my rants about the global markets. There are just too many damn mines out there waiting to go off. Take your pick. Structurally we're a house of cards and the grown ups left the building sometime in the early 90's.
We hope we can limp onwards, but it is also quite obvious that socialism in all its forms is part of the problem, not the solution. As is the style of capitalism being practiced it is oligarchic and crony in nature.

Society has been infantilized as well. I think a lot of this derives from the Russian and especially Chinese experiences. Give the masses bread and circuses (or a marginally better lifestyle) and the insiders hold onto power and the money with an iron fist. China has exported a lot more than cheap goods. It has exported its ethical structure as well, which is none.

Just some happy thoughts on a rainy Tokyo morning.

Melinda Romanoff

windansea-

Those make sense, but are not at all harmonious with the way he's been talking and acting.

Extraneus

If anyone missed this post, it contains the explanation for how someone who viewed the original yfrog image could have saved the incriminating or exculpatory evidence on their own computer as to whether the picture was taken by Weiner's blackberry.

windansea

read the comments to Lee's post, they are trying to figure this out

http://leestranahan.com/a-new-bizarre-yet-logical-answer-to-weinergate

Porchlight

I read them...still not making sense. Doesn't explain where the pic came from, who did the hack and why Weiner would be following Cordova *before* the tweeted photo.

lyle

It's the digital age's rendition of the axiomatic male politician's press nightmare: getting caught with a dead girl or a live boy. Obviously, the girl here is hardly dead but as for the live boy...

Damn, why couldn't we have an equivalent of the Brit press?

Danube of Thought

The purpose of the private internet security firm (hereinafter the "firm") is to produce the most plausible theory consistent with his complete innocence. The firm will not identify any wrongdoer. I assume the firm's fees are being payed out of Weiner's personal funds, but am eager to see that confirmed.

At no time will there be a public disclosure of all correspondence and communications between the firm and Weiner or his agents. In the event any report by the firm is made public, no one from the firm will respond to any questions about its communications with Weiner or his agents.

Anyone who has retained a consulting expert in litigation has already seen this movie.

windansea

he may have sent the pic to someone else before, someone that knew his yfrog address

he's definitely hiding something or someone as he does not want FBI on it, hired private firm

Danube of Thought

Unexpetcted:

"Washington - Manufacturing in the U.S. grew at the slowest pace in a more than a year and employers added fewer jobs than forecast, sending share prices lower on concern a slowdown in the world’s largest economy will extend into the second quarter. The Institute for Supply Management’s factory index fell more than projected to 53.5 last month, the lowest level since September 2009, from 60.4 in April, the Tempe, Arizona-based group said today."

MayBee

Hmmmm....so perhaps Weiner had sent that picture to someone in the past.

However, it could also simply be that Weiner took the pic on his iPhone and emailed it to his yFrog account without logging in.

MayBee

People, if there is some scandalous twitter happening involving me and clarice, BELIEVE IT.
xoxxo

Sue

And it wouldn't explain why Weiner doesn't want the person that "hacked" him identified.

windansea

Lee's twitter feed is interesting, Topsecretk9, Ace and others trying to figure it out

http://twitter.com/#!/Stranahan

Porchlight

It also doesn't explain that weird Seattle hashtag in the previous RepWeiner tweet:

#Thats545InSeattleIThink

Porchlight

If Tops is on the case it should be solved soon. :)

clarice Feldman

I'm dying to see any good explanation for someone past adolescence to shoot a pic of his pup tent and email it anywhere. Did he need a reminder of what he has..Is this for insurance purposes in case it gets lost or stolen?

windansea

And it wouldn't explain why Weiner doesn't want the person that "hacked" him identified.

perhaps it is a woman scorned who has more pics of the wiener (heeh), nobody seems to have ever spoken to Patriotusa "Dan Wolfe" and there was also repneedledick who seems to have disapperared

anyway, its a good mystery :)

Sue

Drudge is finally linking stories about Weiner. New headline..."It might be my weiner". LOL.

Captain Hate

clarice, I think when he saw that photo with the pouffed out hair, his cortex shut down and the rest of his brain went to its "happy place".

windansea

Clarice

go to internet dating sites like adultfriendfinder and you will see a lot more than pup tents, and from both sexes

:)

clarice Feldman

I've no doubt of that, windansea//I wasn't suggesting people don't do that..I was questioning why the hell they would..to people they don't know..

windansea

I was questioning why the hell they would..to people they don't know..

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down

Extraneus

I'm dying to see any good explanation for someone past adolescence to shoot a pic of his pup tent and email it anywhere.

"I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours."

Assuming he's straight. Same explanation for whoever he did send the pic to, if he didn't send it to the woman.

Janet

Remember, Chuck Schumer assured us of Rep. Weiner's integrity.

Extraneus

So who's going to pick up the smear-Clarence-Thomas ball?

Janet

“I don’t know the details,” Schumer said, according to the New York Daily News. “But I know him to be a person of integrity and I am virtually certain he had nothing to do with this.”


Janet

It depends on WHERE that ball is, Extraneus.

Black Hat

I don't know how popular Weiner is among the Washington left. He has their politics but I wouldn't be surprised if they don't support him. I've met him at an NYC real estate industry cocktail party and he struck me as being kind of a prick.

Extraneus

Well obviously it's an assignment that Weiner had, and now has to be re-assigned to some other attack dog. Surely not that ditz Wasserman-Shultz, but Schumer's slimy enough to take it on, surely.

Speaking of Wasserman-Shultz, she's being Fisked all over the place today for her comments on Ryan's Medicare plan.

After reading that, it seems that the longer the discussion on Ryan's plan goes on, the better it's likely to poll with voters.

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Ex,

DWS is a freeking robot programmed to say the same stupid s**t over amd over while blinking at a rate o 120 per minute. Now that WeinerWhiner is less relevant as a punching bag maybe Megyn Kelly can convince Old Blinky to be her special guest/foil?

daddy

Citing Joe DiGeneva on Bret Baer's FOX news Show, the following point was made (Apologies---Not exactly word perfect since it was only posted for a moment)

If Weiner had not been hacked but had reported to the authorities that he had been hacked then that would be the commission of a crime by Weiner, and he would then be subject to prosecution.

Interesting.

Extraneus

Heh. It's worth watching the Wolf Blitzer interview with Weiner. Wolf asked some good questions.

daddy

Wow,

Finally got to see Jane's town on TV. FOX just showed Tornado stuff from a rooftop camera.

And for those who may have missed it, the last few comments on the previous thread show our Mass JOM team is okay, but Amy's house got clobbered and she and the kids and Jane rode it out safely in I think Jane's basement.

daddy

So if DiGeneva is correct, then Weiner doesn't want the police involved for 1 of 2 reasons.

1) He did it or knows who did it and doesn't want that embarrassing info of who and what he's been twittering to come out.

or

2) He knows he wasn't hacked and so won't call for police to investigate the hacking because that would be opening him to criminal charges.

Any other motivations make sense to you guys?

MayBee

Stolen completely from AllahPundit:
pdate: Caleb Howe of Red State tested Cannonfire’s theory and found two problems. One: The alleged smoking gun involving a photo that lacks any Yfrog URL apparently isn’t much of a smoking gun. Cannonfire claimed that that was proof Weiner hadn’t posted the photo to his account; Howe did, however, post a photo to his own account — and it also lacked a Yfrog URL. Two: The only way someone could have inserted a photo into Weiner’s Twitter stream is if they had his Yfrog e-mail address, which turns out to be more obscure than you might think. It’s not simply deductive reasoning like “[email protected]”. There would be additional random numbers and/or letters added on to the address, almost like a password, so that only Weiner himself could access it. Cannonfire’s theory works only if you assume that the guilty party somehow figured out Weiner’s Yfrog e-mail address.

MayBee

Daddy- have you ever gone over to Himeji when you fly into Osaka?

Extraneus

3) Hey, this happens thousands of times a day to people with the name Weiner. Just a prank -- maybe by my political enemies, those lovable rascals -- but surely it's time to move on now, and get back to the People's business. Ha ha, payback is a bitch. No sense wasting the taxpayers' money on some sort of expensive investigation, at least one that I'm not paying for.

Rick Ballard

Daddy,

1. He's being successfully blackmailed.

2. It really was a hack but any investigation would expose non-related criminal activity on his part.

daddy

MayBee,

Have never visited Himeji, but the castle looks magnificent.

Think I'll try to schedule a visit. I enjoy Osaka Castle as it has so much interesting history, especially in the big battle ushering in the Tokugawa Shogunate, but unfortunately it was pretty well demolished in WW2 bombing and so is rebuilt.

From a quick Google search it seems Himeji Castle made it thru the War untouched.
Looks beautiful!

MayBee

Thanks, daddy.
I was hoping you could give me some bus info for a friend going there in a few weeks. I never went when I was there, but it looks pretty spectacular.

xxoox

daddy

Thanks Rick,

Those 2 motivations you added make good sense to me as well.

daddy

Then let me ask the question a different way.


If Weiner is completely innocent and he has absolutely nothing to hide (no previous embarrassing dirty laundry sort of weird postings to young girls or blackmail or to protect an aide who did it etc) is there any legitimate reason why he wouldn't advise authorities to investigate a hacking if he legitimately thought that he was hacked?

henry

Daddy, if I'm hacked it's damn the dirty laundry set authorities to destroy hacker. I can think of no reason to contain info unless said dirty laundry is actual illegal activity of my own.

MarkO

Who pays for the phone? The US Government? If so, bingo.

MarkO

Ah, ha. Doomed.

According to the House regulations, any Member “must immediately report any unauthorized access or unusual system activities to the House Information Resources Security Office (202-226-6448). HIR will investigate any breaches of the Internet security system.” This rule would apply to Rep. Anthony Weiner’s claim of a hacker gaining access to his official facebook and twitter accounts

Rick Ballard

"is there any legitimate reason why he wouldn't advise authorities to investigate a hacking if he legitimately thought that he was hacked?"

Patrick Fitzgerald

clarice Feldman

Himeji is lovely to wander about. I think we arrived too late and left too early to see the inside of the castle but the outside was magnificent.

clarice Feldman

Very funny, Rick. The Blago retrial continues apace and still no sign of Rezko. His partner's sentencing has been postponed though..and still no word of the results of any investigation into who leaked the info about the wiretapping, a leak that seems to have saved Rahm and Obama's bacon.

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Tina

Anthony, each tweet, IM, email, etc., incorporates an identification header records all aspects of the communication. It will tell us if your account was indeed hacked or not. These headers are the material used as evidence in a court of law Anthony. All you have to do is allow a forensic investigation of your device on this one tweet alone and no the headers can’t be deleted by virtue of its design. This will answer any and all questions. The downside of this Anthony to you is that headers don't lie

Threadkiller

--"All you have to do is allow a forensic investigation of your device..."--

Can't add to that.

Stephanie

--"All you have to do is allow a forensic investigation of your device..."--

Is there a mole?

Agent J. (formally known as "J"..

So maybe his wife was using his picture to get the young lady from Seattle?

Hope everyone dodges the storms.

I like the Heat because Maro Chalmers played for KU, and won the National Champ in 1908. That is the only reason.

And the Red Wings are out of it so I don't care who wins the Stanly Cup.

Oh there are no more missing in Joplin from the big tornado so the final is 134, until they find more in the rubble..With it being 90 degrees, they should be able to find them all soon.

That's all.

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Take your pick. Structurally we're a house of cards and the grown ups left the building sometime in the early 90's.

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