The Weiners, it is more than dignity, it is personal peril at the 'operative end' of a fool-hearty prank.

Congressman Anthony Weiner and his wife.

The young LADY involved does not want her name smeared from one end of the internet to the other either.  But, for Congressman Weiner he could face ethic charges or worse.  He is doing the right thing to pursue this with 'independent' investigation before the waters get really muddy and all kinds of insinuations can be propagated.

He is protecting his marriage as well as his reputation and the interests of constituents.

If the 'prank' wasn't so obviously silly, it might even carrry brevity in the real world.

Female college student backs Congressman Weiner's 'hacking' story after VERY risqué picture is tweeted from his account (click title to entry - thank you)

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:13 PM on 1st June 2011

A lifeline for embarrassed U.S. Representative Anthony Weiner seems to have been extended by the woman at the centre of a scandal after a saucy picture was sent to her from the politician's Twitter account.

The married New York Congressman was left red-faced on Friday night, after someone published a crude picture of a man in underpants on his official Twitter account.

The picture, a close-up of a bulge in a pair of man's grey boxer briefs, was sent to one Twitter user - a 21-year-old college student from Seattle called Gennette Cordova - but was on view to all 45,000 of his followers....

We have seen this type of SOCIAL ENGINEERING before.  He is absolutely correct to take control and find out what the heck is going on here.  I wish him the best as the personality doesn't fit the picture UNLESS it was his wife that was playing with allure and enticement.