How is Volkswagen&#x27;s US head, who lives and works in the US, able to issue proclamations with such certainty about the non-existence of private conversations and directions taking place among the engineering staff and management in Germany, where he spends almost no time?<p>It is as if a US diplomat stationed in New Zealand used his authority to declare that Bush had never authorized any torture, and it was rogue individual interrogators who did it. How would he know given he was on the other side of the world when the conversations would have taken place.