Weiner 'Can't Say' Photo Isn't Him

Politico reports:

Rep. Anthony Weiner says he “can’t say with certitude” that the lewd photo of a man’s crotch sent using his Twitter account to one of his followers isn’t of him.

“I didn’t send that picture out, ” Weiner said in a Wednesday afternoon interview with NBC News.

“That’s not a picture of you?” reporter Luke Russert asked.

Weiner responded: “You know, I can’t say with certitude.”

As he has since soon after news of the photo broke last Friday, the New York Democrat insisted again Wednesday that his account had been broken into and that the hacker sent the photo to a 21-year-old college student in Seattle.

“My system was hacked, pictures can be manipulated, dropped in and inserted,” Weiner said. “One reason I asked a firm to look at what the heck happened here … is to see maybe something was manipulated, maybe something was dropped in.”

“We don’t know for sure what happened here,” Weiner added. “But let’s try to take a step back. This is a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the internet, spoofed me, made fun of me, whatever. We’re taking it seriously in as much we want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”