2 Jun 2011 1:50 pm
About Weinergate:Twitter and political forensics back up Weiner's story (that his account was hacked). The metadata in the photo don't match up with the data of other photos he has posted on Yfrog, supporting the argument that someone other than Weiner put it up. Plus, if he indeed meant to send the pic, it's hard to imagine him accidentally hitting "@" instead of "d"the Twitter command for sending a direct message. From a political standpoint, the person who discovered and retweeted Weiner's photo just happens to be Dan Wolfe, a conservative who is obsessed with Weiner's Twitter relationship with young women and who earlier in May had promised "sex-scandal pics of a 'big time' Congressman." Why would he, of all people, be the first to spot it? (One possible answer: Tweets that begin with @ are seen only by the sender, the recipient, and any user who follows both. Wolfe, because of his interest in the females Weiner followed on Twitter, is probably one of the few who fit the bill.) Also in Weiner's favor: The woman to whom the photo was directed released a statement over the weekend saying the deleted tweet never reached her and that she's never met Weiner. [....]An official investigation would clear all this up. A law enforcement agency could subpoena Twitter or Yfrog for the IP address from which the photo and tweet were posted. If that IP address pointed to a machine other than Weiner's, case closed.Was Anthony Weiner's Twitter account hacked?Why was Dana Loesch of Breitbart's Big Govt website (who is pushing this story) recently asking, via Twitter, if it's possible to fake a yFrog account? That is the photo sharing service that Weiner used.