Alternate theory as to why Weiner won’t turn this over to the Feds: it is not so much worrying about making a false statement as it is facing the investigative process. There is no way in the world that he wants the Feds to look at his OTHER message traffic. The “hack” is just the smoke and there’s real fire to be found.
Its funny. I am a professional photographer. If I ever take a photo of my wife or kids that she doesnt like, she makes me delete it “RIGHT NOW, and show me!” She knows that once the photo is downloaded into my computer, it goes into the system and it will never disappear.
And she knows if it ever goes near the internet it will be out there forever.
And she is right.
Even deleting it on the camera doesn’t get rid of it forever, if I don’t want it to.
Think of a digital camera like a firearm. You do not point it at anything you do not want published for the world to see forever.