As CNN showed the image on the screen, a puzzled Wolf Blitzer pressed the congressman: “You would know if this was your underpants.”“I appreciate you continuing to flash that at me,” Weiner said in a tone that made it clear he didn’t. Weiner insisted again that the episode was “a prank” and “a hoax.” But his responses — and lack of them — assured that the controversy would continue power balance usa . He said he has hired a lawyer and a security firm, which he did not name, to investigate the incident. But he did not take the matter to legal authorities, he said, because he thought they had better things to do.In a moment that will probably go down in the annals of how not to handle a crisis, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) insisted again on Wednesday that he was not the one who sent a suggestive photo from his Twitter account — but he told NBC News that “I can’t say with certitude” whether the now-famous image is of his own crotch.Meanwhile, Gennette Nicole Cordova, the 21-year-old Seattle area student to whom the tweet was addressed, wrote in the New York Daily News that she has never met the congressman. She added that “there have never been any inappropriate exchanges between Anthony Weiner and myself, including the tweet/picture in question, which had apparently been deleted before it reached me.”Most puzzling to many veterans of Washington imbroglios is why Weiner would not clarify whether he is indeed the person in the photo, which is presumably something he would have a pretty good idea about.His answer ranks “somewhere below ‘no controlling legal authority’ and above ‘wide stance,’” said Democratic crisis-management specialist Chris Lehane.Weiner gave a series of television interviews in an attempt to tamp down the furor that began over the weekend when a waist-down photograph of a man in his underwear appeared briefly on his Twitter shop online 2011 page. The tweet, which Weiner said he deleted when he saw it, was addressed to a college student who follows him on the social-networking site.The questions regarding the incident continued into a fourth day, fueled in part by the fact that the controversy is perfect early-summer fodder for cable news and that it involves a lawmaker who is both an intense partisan and an adept user of new media.
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