'Curious': Representative Weiner Leaves CNN with Unanswered Questions

CNN’s John King managed to be the first cable news outlet to ask the question Big Government and Big Journalism have been asking all weekend:

There’s one way the congressman could try to put this to rest, and that would be to call the Capitol Police or call the FBI and say, “come on in, please launch an investigation because I was hacked.” Why hasn’t he done that?

That, Mr. King, is an excellent question. Representative Weiner first commented via twitter that his facebook account was hacked. After that, Representative Weiner told Politico that he thought it was “obvious” his account had been hacked. Now Representative Weiner is saying that it was a “prank” and that he’s “loath” to treat it as anything more.

There is a significant difference between being “pranked” and being “hacked” and I’m quite confident the U. S. Congressman understands this difference. Tweeting a picture of an erection in some underoos to a coed could hardly be considered a harmless act, but the real question here that Representative Weiner or the press are largely “loath” to ask is this: If Representative Weiner was hacked, what information did the alleged hacker gain with his entry? Is it possible that he gained Representative Weiner’s password? Could this be the same password that he uses to login to other accounts that he uses to do the People’s business?

This is about the possible compromise of possibly sensitive information. This hacking potentially reaches to one of the highest levels of governance in our Republic. Given Representative Weiner’s elected position, it is not only responsible for him to take any breaches of his personal information seriously, it is his duty.

But Rep. Weiner doesn’t seem to be taking it very seriously. Instead of announcing that he called federal law enforcement officers, Rep. Weiner has announced that he called his lawyer.

Curious, indeed.