User blog comment:Ramallah/Mass Effect 3 details revealed/@comment-1886172-20110410182257/@comment-743796-20110411112653

Well yes they could. They'd get general orders from TIM then would only apply a basic adherence to those orders. After all, those who experimented on Jack despite TIM's orders, manipulated the research guidelines and deliberately withheld information from him until the facility was being overrun (some of the logs say to not report to the Illusive Man, in Jack's loyalty mission).