MR LAX
Can I ask you this, because it really, we can go around in circles forever.  My difficulty goes to this point and that is, he says he got permission, so there's a disjuncture between what he says.  If he says he got permission, he can't then rely on his implied authority, because he says categorically: "Webb gave me permission.  I had Webb's authority to do it."  Webb says: "I didn't give you authority."  If he's telling us he got authority and he's wrong in that respect, either he's not telling the truth, or he's mistaken, or whatever the case might be, he can't then rely on his implied authority, because the two are mutually exclusive.