User blog comment:JediSpectre117/James Vega your guard and before trial./@comment-4048340-20110919020328/@comment-1900300-20110921053838

Maybe that is true in ME3, but it is clear in ME2 that the role of Spectre is "purely symbolic now". Persumably this was due to Saren discrediting the Spectres and pointing out the very thing wrong with giving people unlimited power. Also the new changes in power in Citadel space after ME would have pushed for more sublte ways of getting things done. Diplomatic and espionage would be more useful in an unstable galaxy then sending one person to kill everyone.