User blog comment:JediSpectre117/Council not helping in ME3/@comment-2250460-20110921060626/@comment-144.96.212.163-20110923203142

There have been repeated mentions of reports submitted to the Council by Shepard of everything he's encountered. These reports weren't just anecdotes. They included data like ship scans and omni-tool data. This combined with the verbal report of their primary operative in the situation should be enough to establish a policy. They only way to avoid the conclusion that the Reapers are coming is to disregard EVERYTHING Shepard says, records, or does that contradicts the conclusion they want to reach. They simply have their heads in the sand.

For God's sake, they accuse Shepard of being manipulated by Saren even though he tracks him to ground across the galaxy and annihilates him personally. So their conclusion based on "facts" is that Saren could manipulate a highly trained, extremely competent special operative into believing in fairy tales but failed to get that same operative to let him live? I can see how this could happen, but in light of everything else, this is a far fetched notion at best.