We go into the back and forth in our story today between Steve Rosen and AIPAC’s lawyers over who viewed porn on AIPAC’s computers. For concision’s sake, we kept away from some of the more bizarre exchanges.
The hilarious anime version of the deposition below includes just such an exchange, in which Rosen exhibits a formidable defensive wit. One of my favorite lines comes after the lawyers ask him to describe how often he browsed for porn as opposed to how often he viewed it. Rosen asks them to explain the difference and then: "Even after you explained it, I don’t understand it." And it gets better.
Why AIPAC’s lawyers insist on going into what kind of porn Rosen viewed is one for smarter minds than mine to resolve. The point seems to be to establish that Rosen was violating company policy by viewing porn — Rosen acknowledges it, but notes that it was honored in the breach not only by him, but by his superiors, including Howard Kohr. How on earth is how many people were in the video/what they were doing/what were the genders involved — germane? What’s AIPAC getting at?
Like I said, for smarter legal minds than mine to resolve.
UPDATE: I have no idea who TheMarkusHatch — the person who created this video — is. But I was alerted to it by a Facebook posting by my former colleague, Daniel Sieradski. And via Daniel, I learn from Eli Valley that this is more correctly referred to as animation, not anime.
I thought they were cute enough to be anime. But I stand corrected.
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