Shirtless Weiner photo sent

More sexually suggestive photos of Rep. Anthony Weiner surfaced yesterday - including one in which he's shirtless - after they were published by a conservative website that said they had been provided by a woman who said the New York Democrat sent them to her recently.

Weiner, who made no public appearances yesterday, is already reeling after a lewd photo of an underwear-clad man was received last week by a young Seattle college student from the congressman's Twitter account. Weiner says his account was hacked.

Among the photos posted on Monday by Andrew Breitbart's Big Government website are four images of Weiner shirtless and flexing his muscles.

A fifth image is the same one of a man in bulging gray underwear that was also sent publicly to the 21-year-old college, Genette Cordova. All of the photos made public yesterday are said to have come from a Yahoo e-mail address that the woman who provided the photos says Weiner used to communicate with her, according to biggovernment.com.

The photos were allegedly sent nearly two weeks before the underwear photo appeared on Weiner's Twitter feed, and the congressman claimed that his account has been hacked. With all eyes on him last week, Weiner said he could not say "with certitude" that the photo was not of him.

The shirtless photos - at least one of which was apparently taken in Weiner's office - are eerily similar to the photograph of former Rep. Christopher Lee (R-N.Y.) flexing his muscles that spread across the web earlier this year and had Lee resigning by the end of the day.

Early Monday morning, Breitbart wrote that he planned to release "photographs, chats, and emails" throughout the day that would show that Weiner engaged in sexual behavior over the internet. The unidentified woman - who Breitbart says is not Cordova - says that Weiner sent them to her as they flirted online. Another photo that the site has chosen not to publish is titled "ready.JPG" and, Breitbart says, is "extremely graphic" and "leaves nothing to the imagination."

The first photo posted on biggovernment.com shows Weiner holding piece of paper that says "me," with an arrow pointed toward his head. The woman claims that it was sent to her via BlackBerry from AnthonyWeiner@aol.com on May 5, after she asked him to confirm that she was really talking to him. The second photo shows him sitting alongside two cats with a sexually suggestive subject line, "Me and the pussys."

In one of the photos released Monday afternoon, a bare-chested man whose nose, mouth and chin appear to be Weiner's is sitting at a desk chair with rows of photographs behind him. One, Breitbart says, seems to show Weiner posing with former President Bill Clinton.

Meanwhile, Radar Online reported Monday that it has obtained a cache of 200 sexually explicit messages that Weiner sent to a middle-aged woman in Nevada.

Though Weiner offered to send a photo of his "bulge," he never did because he "got cold feet," the woman said. She claims he did send a raft of suggestive text messages and also said she had a 30-minute phone sex session with him on a congressional phone line.

"A few days later, I tried to call him back on that number," the woman said. "But the number wouldn't connect to his office; instead there was a recorded message that it was an outgoing U.S. Congress line only."

Weiner, 46, is a seven-term Democrat who represents parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Before being elected to the House in 1998, he spent six years in the New York City Council. He started his career working as an aide to then-Rep. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and has the seat that Schumer held until he was elected to the Senate.

The first lewd photo emerged late on the night of Friday, May 27, and Weiner quickly said he'd been hacked. "The weiner gags never get old, I guess," he told POLITICO the next day.

Weiner hired a lawyer, but chose not to go to the Capitol Police or the FBI. Critics speculated he didn't want to involve the authorities because if he hadn't been hacked, he could be charged with the federal crime of filing a false report.

But, as reporters and bloggers kept their sights on Weiner, his message was muddled. In an interview last Tuesday with CNN, he turned angry and repeatedly refused to answer questions about whether he'd sent the photo and why he'd chosen not to go to authorities.

On Wednesday, with questions mounting, Weiner sat down for a series of interviews. In the first one, with MSNBC, he was asked if the crotch photo were of him. He responded: "You know, I can't say with certitude."

In subsequent interviews, Weiner kept up the same message, stirring suspicions that even if his account was hacked, he might have misbehaved in some way. On "The Rachel Maddow Show," he tried to joke, saying "Am I allowed to say I wish?" when asked if the photo were of him.

On Thursday, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) called on Weiner to "come clean" and offer a clear explanation of how a photo of a man in underwear ended up on his Twitter stream.

He cancelled weekend appearances in Wisconsin and New York, choosing instead to spend time with his wife Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

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