User blog comment:JediSpectre117/James Vega your guard and before trial./@comment-4048340-20110919020328/@comment-4301893-20110921050038

Eh, Who knows the minds of the Council? It's been obvious that bad things were on the way for quite some time now, and they've had plenty of proof if they chose to see it. The omni-tool from Liara's visit to Vigil should of been enough. At any rate, I don't really see evidence that the council has lost authority or that being a Spectre means less than it ever did. I don't know enough about ME3 to make any judgments at all on how Council races will be handling the new more overt threat. The races we've heard about the most are the krogan and the quarians, both non-council.