User blog comment:Ironreaper/Did Shepard leave Ceberus./@comment-2256917-20100910003629/@comment-217683-20100910004431

Well yeah, any gov't can disavow it (as a government employee, I'm well aware of that), but that hasn't happened in this case, and it's sort of a specious analogy, as while a government can disavow the covert op, the person committing it, then cashing the check can't disavow it. And Shepard is the individual in this scenario, not the government/organization. And I am well aware of the fact that I'm using vague terms like associated with. This is intentional, as to the best of my knowledge, Shepard never formally joined Cerberus, merely worked with them, i.e. associated with them