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Originally Posted by unclebilly

Time to leapfrog. I don't put up with this BS and I'm guess I am the assassin that has been served by a palace coup. Dont wait for the meeting in Germany to point out why you dont have the tools to do your job.

It obvious that the American is afraid of you and is trying to handcuff your success to show you weren't needed. You have the era of the guy in Germany, he hired you. Use his ear.

Put yourself in the German guy's shoes - how would you feel if you hired a guy to assist and he never told you that he wasn't given the tools he needed to do the job you hired him for?

This.