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The teenage girl who had exchanged inappropriate text messages with former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) lied about her age and political motivations to harm Hillary ClintonHillary Rodham ClintonReport: Girl in Weiner sexting case lied to damage Clinton Trump's triumph in Riyadh proves America is back on top of the world Juan Williams: Trump morphs into Nixon MORE, according to a report by the investigative news siteWhoWhatWhy.

In a report published Monday, the web site said the girl who exchanged the messages with Weiner was closer to 17 and not 15, as initial reports said. That also puts her above the age of consent in North Carolina.

In addition, she and her family were also not Clinton supporters, as the girl claimed in a letter published byBuzzFeed, according to social media posts unearthed by the website. The report also says the girl initiated the contact with Weiner, and then sought advice from a GOP figure behind "prior efforts to harm Weiner and other Democrats."

The website suggests this could mean that Weiner was the target of a politically motivated plot.

Seeing that Weiner is both a repeat offender his sexting addiction cost him his job in Congress as well as a shot at becoming mayor of New York and associated with one of the most important people in Clintons inner circle, it is conceivable that this was a set-up from the beginning, with the objective of embarrassing the Clinton campaign, the WhoWhatWhy report reads.

The investigation of Weiner and his accuser led the FBI to announce just weeks before Election Day that it was again looking at Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's emails. It did so because it had found a series of emails from Weiner to his then-estanged wife, Huma Abedin, an aide to Clinton.

Clinton lost the election and many in her camp have blamed the FBI and its then-director, James Comey.

Weiner last week pled guilty to a charge of distributing obscene material to a minor, which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

WhoWhatWhy is a non-profit investigative reporting site that describes itself as a "forensic journalism" that looks to "unearth the facts interested parties want hidden." Its editor-in-chief and CEO is Russ Baker, who has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Washington Post.

The WhoWhatWhy report, citing a court record, says the girl was just shy of 17 when she approached Weiner, and not 15 as The Daily Mail cited when it initially broke the story.

It argues that this "lie" seems "clearly designed to to produce the maximum public outrage and put Weiner in greater legal jeopardy."

WhoWhatWhy cites a number of social media messages and photographs to argue that the victim was from a Republican-friendly family, and that this suggests a political trick may have been in play.

It says that the victim celebrated Trump's victory on social media, that her father is a registered Republican and that her mother tweeted derisively about the Black Lives Matter movement.

The report also added that Chuck Johnson, a conservative writer, was one of the individuals who connected the girl to The Daily Mail.

Its not yet clear whether the motive was primarily money, a plot to smear Clinton, or both, the report notes.

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This week, Jesse Watters headed to Whippoorwill Park in Westchester County, N.Y. in search of Hillary Clinton, who was previously pictured hiking around there after losing the election.

At a speech earlier this year, Clinton remarked that she was soon coming "out of the woods" and back into the public eye.

With a walking stick to navigate the hilly terrain, Watters hiked the trails in the park, outside the Clintons' adopted hometown of Chappaqua.

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Soon, he spotted a possible sign of the former Democratic presidential nominee:

"There's a $20!" he said, picking up a bill from beside a tree.

Continuing along with no further luck, he tried calling out her campaign slogan to see if she would respond:

Giving up on his quest in the forest, Watters headed downtown to ask the folks there if she or President Clinton had been seen recently.

One woman said she saw the Clintons in the local bookstore:

Other folks said they hadn't seen the couple in a while, but added that they were still fans of the former secretary of state:

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Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta is still smarting from his candidates election loss.

In a lengthy interview with Politico, Podesta seemed to hold nothing back in ripping President Donald Trump who has, in Podestas view, made some absolutely crazy moves during his administration.

One of those moves, according to the Clinton campaign chairman whose hacked emails became public fodder last October was the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Podesta doesnt even remotely buy the idea that Comey was dismissed because of his handling of the Clinton email investigation.

Its laughable, really laughable that Donald Trump would fire Jim Comey because of his interference which damaged Hillary Clinton, Podesta told Politico. I mean, it was laughable from the very beginning.

Politicos Susan Glasser then asked Podesta, point blank: Do you think that [Comeys interference] did help to swing the election?

His response?

Oh, yes. Absolutely. I think that look, we bear responsibility, and its a great burden and I feel it every day. I mean, we lost this election; we won the popular vote by 3 million votes, but we lost the Electoral College and lost the election to Donald Trump. So, we have a burden of his having the keys to the White House, and you know, codes to the nuclear football. But I think this was a significant factor. We felt like we had a lead that we took away from the three debates, in which, you know, I believe that Hillary won all those debates. The race was tight; we werent overconfident, but we werewe had a lead, and that lead really substantially narrowed after Comeys letter, and the last week of coverage, which was all about if nothing else, is this thing going to ever end? Now, you know, hewhat he opened, he closed, as I said, just a week later. But he could have done that quietly, and consistently with long-standing precedent, of both Democratic and Republican Justice Departments.

Podestas response mirrors that of his candidates, who said at a forum last month that she takes personal responsibility for the loss, before going on to blame external factors such as Comey and not actually detailing any specific campaign failings.

I think, you know, if those 70,000 votes had gone differently in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, that we would have all been geniuses, Podesta told Politico.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn will invoke his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination as he notifies a Senate panel that he won't hand over documents in the probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.

The notification will come in a letter to the Senate Intelligence committee expected later Monday. The person providing details spoke on condition anonymity in order to discuss private interactions between Flynn and the committee.

Flynn's decision comes less than two weeks after the committee issued a subpoena for Flynn's personal documents.

Legal experts have said Flynn was unlikely to turn over the personal documents without immunity because he would be waiving some of his constitutional protections by doing so. Flynn has previously sought immunity from "unfair prosecution" to cooperate with the committee.

The Senate committee is one of several congressional inquiries investigating possible collusion between Russia and President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign. Flynn is also the target of other congressional investigations as well as an ongoing FBI counterintelligence probe and a separate federal investigation in Virginia.

Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general, was fired from his position as Trump's national security adviser in February. At the time, Trump said he fired Flynn because he misled senior administration officials, including the vice president, about his contacts with Russian officials.

Members of key congressional committees are pledging a full public airing as to why former FBI Director James Comey was ousted amid an intensifying investigation into Russia's interference with the U.S. election.

In Sunday show appearances, both Republican and Democratic lawmakers said they will press Comey in hearings as to whether he ever felt that Trump tried to interfere with his FBI work. Others are insisting on seeing any White House or FBI documents that detail conversations between the two, following a spate of news reports that Comey had kept careful records.

Comey was fired by Trump earlier this month. The former FBI director agreed to testify before the Senate intelligence committee after the Memorial Day holiday.

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