The teenager who reportedly received sexual text messages from Anthony Weiner when she was 15 is now "upset" that the case provoked a renewed investigation into Hillary Clinton's private email server, BuzzFeed News reports. "The FBI asked for me to speak to the media as little as possible," said the now 16-year-old girl, whose name hasn't been revealed by the media due to the fact that she is underage. "I have tried to stay quiet, but [FBI Director James] Comey has upset me. The last thing that I wanted was to have this become political propaganda."
The girl told BuzzFeed News she was informed of the connection only on Friday afternoon after completing an hours-long interview with FBI agents when she was then telephoned by a reporter seeking comment on Comey's announcement.BuzzFeed News is not identifying the underage girl or her family to protect their privacy.Her father told BuzzFeed News he has been left feeling "angry that the local folks had interviewed my daughter for six hours that same day about intimate details from her previous interactions with a pervert and then released the story of Weiner's server before we could drive home from the site where she was interviewed." [BuzzFeed News]
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