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Conservative website posts private pictures of Anthony Weiner

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Rep. Anthony Weiner

Updated 12 p.m. ET

Conservative activist and author Andrew Breitbart on Monday posted two pictures of Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, which Breitbart alleges were emailed to a young woman he declined to identify.

A spokesman for Weiner did not immediately respond to a request to confirm that Weiner had, in fact, sent the photos. Breitbart has promised to post more photos of Weiner later Monday.

The first picture -- posted on biggovernment.com and bigjournalism.com (two websites run by Breitbart) -- shows Weiner holding up a piece of white paper with the word "me" and an arrow pointing to Weiner's face. Breitbart alleges Weiner took the photo of himself to prove to a woman with whom he was corresponding that he was in fact, the Anthony Weiner who represents New York City in Congress.

Breitbart also a posted a picture of Weiner with two house cats in the background. Breitbart says Weiner sent the photo of the cats using an anthonyweiner@aol.com email account with a subject heading "Me and the pussys."

Weiner last week came under fire for a photo of a bulging crotch in grey underwear that was sent from his Twitter account. Weiner has said the photo was a prank, or that his Twitter account was hacked. He said he could not say with certainty whether or not the photo was in fact him.

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