User blog comment:Braveangel/The longest serving turian and the longest serving human/@comment-2006054-20100423062535

Considering that even Garrus' dad despises the way SPECTRE works (and the dad should have been longer in the turian military than Garrus) it seems that something is wrong with the way SPECTRE is structured. It is true, SPECTRE is modeled upon the salarian STG. The STG, however, acts in deployment groups with a rank-and-file discipline and, in certain situations, must first gain approval from the salarian government before taking any actions. Mordin said that the recon group he had been in found that the krogans were overcoming the genophage naturally. Thus the salarian government decided to unleash the new version of the genophage. Mordin described how he was forced to work within the limitation of the existing genophage. This implies that the political decision is in the hands of the salarian government, including all the specific parameters of success.

It is also true that Anderson failed to become the first human SPECTRE because Saren falsified his report on his brutal method and blamed all the casualties to Anderson. But he was known as being the brutal one among the two. And apparently the Council didn't have a monitoring/corroborating elements in their evaluation scheme.

It might be as you said, the Council races are arrogant to the point of folly. If that is the case, then it's no point in complaining. Sooner or later, another Saren (or Harkin, to a lesser extent) will surely surface and wreak havoc again. A good excuse for another ME sequel, eh? :D