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It's Only Huma! Is Hillary's Sultry Aide Waxing Congressman's Weiner? | Observer

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rumors. “I’ve got nothing for you on this, buddy,” he said.

It's Only Huma! Is Hillary's Sultry Aide Waxing Congressman's Weiner?

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So say ex-girlfriends of Rep. Anthony Weiner, who tell The Post that the Queens and Brooklyn congressman — despite his reputation as a womanizer — can be quite the gentleman.
“The rap he gets is that he’s a smooth operator,” says Fox news analyst and

occasional Post contributor Kirsten Powers, who dated Weiner for three months in 2002. “But he’s very sweet, very funny, very charming.”

Weiner married Huma Abedin, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s top aide, in July 2010 — but “everybody knows Anthony is a bit of a cowboy,” says one

New York political player.

In addition to Powers, he dated former New York magazine publicist Serena Torrey (she later married Theodore Roosevelt V), TV journalist Gigi Stone and television producer Alli Joseph, whose blog lists “[driving] her convertible with her knees” as a

favorite pastime.

According to one ex-girlfriend, Weiner spent years mooning over Abedin but his active social life perhaps kept her from taking it seriously. Weiner’s preoccupation with beautiful women extended to his policy prescriptions: In 2008, he co-authored a much-mocked

bill that would have loosened immigration restrictions on foreign supermodels.
The model, the bill said, should have “distinguished merit and ability.”

Back on Earth, Powers and Weiner met at the now-defunct dive bar Siberia, on Manhattan’s West Side. He called her the next day, and they began dating immediately, having low-key dinners at Dos Caminos or catching movies in Chelsea, her neighborhood.

Weiner made national news as a freshman congressman in 2001 when he made an appearance in a Vanity Fair story about sexual politics on Capitol Hill. He introduced himself to 22-year-old intern Diana Davis as “an auto-parts salesman” but later casually mentioned that he’d be

joining the president on Air Force One to tour the smoldering wreckage at Ground Zero.

Weiner then e-mailed her the next day, suggesting she visit him on the Hill “in person.” (As opposed to what?) Davis never replied.
“I thought that was cheesy,” she told the magazine.

Weiner then lashed out in The Washington Post, saying he found it disgusting that two days after 9/11 — an event he had used as a pickup opportunity — Vanity Fair was covering sex on the Hill.

“I was shocked,” he said.
As detailed in the article, Weiner successfully toggles between the nerdy, nebbishy boy from Queens and the sophisticated DC power player who pairs up with chic, sharp women.

So charming, in fact, that Powers was shocked when he broke it off.
“I think he’s the only guy who ever dumped me!” she says, laughing. “I think he probably dumped a lot of girls. I don’t think it was that big of a deal.”

We’ve known about the relationship between Representative Anthony Weiner and Hillary Clinton’s “body woman” Huma Abedin since back in January, and we’ve been tittering about it ever since.

“Soon there will be pictures of me emerging from behind a tree,” he said, making a joke that we don’t completely understand. Weiner hasn’t talked to Hillary about the relationship, but he says he’s “certain that the relationship was not the product of a political calculation.”

“Given how hard I’ve worked for Hillary, I think I might be ambassador to [Saudi] Arabia in the Obama administration,” he added.

Huma is Huma Abedin, Clinton's so-called "body woman," who is usually seen at the candidate's side. The Daily News' headline is "Yes, I'm hot for Hillary Clinton's 'body woman,' Congressman Weiner admits" which sounds, well, kinda kinky.
Weiner has admired Abedin, a half-

Pakistani, half-Indian native of Saudi Arabia, for a while. In last year's Observer profile of Abedin, Weiner said, "This notion that Senator Clinton is a cool customer—I mean, I don’t dispute it, but the coolest customer in that whole operation is Huma." Weiner's dating past

includes, reportedly, Capitol Hill interns and Gigi Stone.

Long before his last name became a national joke, Rep. Anthony Weiner was voted one of Cosmopolitan magazine's "101 Gorgeous Real Life Bachelors."

Over the weekend, someone tweeted a crotch shot from Rep. Anthony Weiner’s Twitter account at a 21-year-old Washington state college student. Whether Weiner was hacked, as he says, or committed a costly gaffe.

Before his 2010 marriage to Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Weiner was known as one of Washington’s most eligible bachelors, with a long and glamorous list of exes. But perhaps no incident is as infamous as his encounter with a young staffer two days

after Sept. 11, 2001, recounted in a Vanity Fair article that year.

Vicky Ward, a reporter for the magazine, was tracking Diana Davis, a young congressional staffer who bragged, “Maybe I’ll bag me a senator” after snagging her Hill gig. Davis and intern Carolina Chatterton

were at the D.C. restaurant Capital Grille when they met a group of suited men.

One, a goateed young man, introduced himself as “Anthony,” and said he was an auto-parts salesman. The next day, Weiner sent Davis an email—although she initially didn’t know he was a congressman.

“He writes that he hopes they might meet again,” Ward wrote. “Diana is overwhelmed that he’s managed to think of her on a day that must be heavy with import and emotional intensity. Last night he mentioned that he’d be going to Manhattan to inspect the World Trade Center

wreckage with the president.”

Davis said Weiner had emailed that she could visit him in his office “in person,” a suggestion she found “cheesy.” Weiner denied offering any such invitation and explained that he didn’t like to identify himself as a congressman when socializing.

“I feel it’s a way to protect myself,” he told The Washington Post’s Lloyd Grove, now a Daily Beast editor at large. “I think people are less likely to overhear what an auto-parts salesman would say. I was shocked to learn that two days after September 11, Vanity Fair was

pursuing a sting operation down in Washington.”

Even if nothing happened with Davis, Weiner’s love life was a topic of conversation. As a young, single member of Congress—he’s only 46 now, and looks younger—he dated a string of high-profile young women. He was romantically

linked to Rebecca Mead, a New Yorker writer; television personality and “cybermodel” Alli Joseph; and TV reporter Gigi Stone. (The New York Daily News once published a gallery of “ Weiner’s Women.”)

In 2008, Weiner sponsored a bill to increase the number of visas available to models by 1,000. The representative’s spokesman said it was just economics to bring jobs to New York City, but the New York Post was skeptical. “Seems Anthony Weiner is working hard to increase

Abedin, who has been featured in Vogue, is known for being forceful and effective. Their wedding was presided over by Bill Clinton. Weiner was smitten. “This notion that Senator Clinton is a cool customer—I mean, I don’t dispute it, but the coolest customer in that whole

The mysterious Twitter picture has prompted new murmurs that perhaps Weiner is back to his playboy ways. Both the congressman and the recipient of the quickly deleted tweet say they don’t know each other and have never met, although they did follow each other on the

microblogging service. Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old student at Seattle’s Whatcom Community College, said in a statement to the Daily News, ”I have never met Congressman Weiner, though I am a fan.

I go to school in Bellingham where I spend all of my time; I’ve never been to New York or to DC. The point I am trying to make is that, contrary to the impression that I apparently gave from my tweet, I am not his girlfriend. Nor am I the wife, girlfriend or mistress of Barack

Obama, Ray Allen, or Cristiano Ronaldo, despite the fact that I have made similar assertions about them via Twitter.”

The 198 people Weiner follows are an odd mix, with names like MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and PolitiFact mixing with several accounts with few followers that

appear to belong to young women (including the bikini-clad Melody Gambino and ♥ dreamer girl ♥, who’s fond of the heart symbol). Meanwhile, a blogger pointed out that porn star and stripper Ginger Lee claims to have received a direct message from the congressman on Twitter—

although the contents, according to Lee, were hardly salacious: “He thanked me for the shout-outs and said he likes my blog.”

Weiner’s office says it’s all a distraction and has hired a lawyer to advise him on whether he can press charges, his office says. Meanwhile, he’s

lining up defenders, including his political mentor, Sen. Chuck Schumer—but as New York Observer reporter Azi Paybarah points out, the Democratic senator’s statement is far from unequivocal: “I am virtually certain he had nothing to do with this.”

With right-wing media outlets licking their lips at the prospect of taking down the outspokenly liberal Weiner, the story is long from over—and Schumer is likely to have a more definitive answer before too long.

Earlier this month, it began a drive to attract more foreign visitors by issuing visas to non-Muslim tourists for the first time.
It has traditionally only issued visas for work purposes, officially-approved visits and pilgrimage to Mecca.

There has not previously been an

explicit ban on Jews travelling to Saudi Arabia, though people with Israeli passports or with Israeli stamps in their documents, have not been allowed in.

US Congressman Anthony Weiner denounced the prohibition against Jews and called on the US government to take action.
"It is

very difficult to see the Saudis as anything other than a backward country with backward ideals and this reaffirms that," Mr Weiner said.
"I think the administration should take a hard look at this website and decide whether a country that has these policies should be considered

our ally."
Just this week, two investigative reporters in South Florida revealed that Sarasota’s connection to the attacks were far deeper than previously known. A wealthy Saudi Arabian family — with members on the FBI’s watch list — met with the 9/11 terrorists in the months

leading up to 9/11 in their posh Prestancia country club home.

One of the more controversial figures to emerge was Rudi Dekkers, a Dutch native and owner of Huffman Aviation. Once the public learned that hijackers Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi trained at Huffman, Dekkers

was soon defending himself from conspiracy theorists who believed he was somehow involved in the plot.
Within a year, Dekkers had to sell his flight school. With his name tied on the Web to the attacks, he said he struggled to find steady work.

The business gained notoriety after the September 11th attacks, when it was revealed that Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi had attended the school to learn how to fly small aircraft.
The two first trained at Huffman in July 2000.[5] In August, the school filed the M-1 student

visa request forms for Atta and al-Shehhi to switch from 'tourist' Visas, to 'student', in order to allow them to enroll in the school's professional pilot program that would last from September 1, 2000, until September 1 the next year.. The student visa requests were granted on

Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of State that show Clinton Foundation executive Doug Band lobbying a Clinton aide for a diplomatic passport.
"Need get me/ justy and jd dip passports," Band wrote to longtime Clinton adviser Huma Abedin. "We had them years ago but they

lapsed and we didn't bother getting them."
The identity of Band's associates were not immediately clear.

Abedin responded favorably in the emails provided.

"Ok will figure it out," she replied.

It's unclear whether the request resulted in the acquisition of a diplomatic passport for Band or either associate. The State Department declined to comment on the individual case, citing the Privacy Act, but an official pointed to the standard regulations governing the issuance

of diplomatic passports.
"Diplomatic passports are issued to Foreign Service Officers or a person having diplomatic or comparable status because he or she is traveling abroad to carry out diplomatic duties on behalf of the U.S. Government," the official said.

"Any individuals who do not have this status are not issued Diplomatic passports. Even when issued, Diplomatic passports are only given enough validity to facilitate a bearer's travel while in such status. After that, the passport expires.