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The problem is, the only reason any of those witnesses are \\\"unreliable\\\" is if the person listening to them is determined to find something wrong with them so they can handwave anything they say.

\\\"Oh, we can\\\'t believe this guy, he\\\'s a KROGAN!\\\"
\\\"I don\\\'t care how respected a scientist she is in her field, her mother was a bad guy therefore anything she says is obviously a lie!\\\"
\\\"Oh, sure, s/he\\\'s a decorated war hero, but take anything they say \\\'\\\'seriously?\\\'\\\' Pfffft, of course the most logical answer is no, they were a subordinate of him at one point and of course all military soldiers will lie under oath because it\\\'s not like there\\\'s any kinds of repercussions for that!\\\"
\\\"A Quarian? Oh, suuuure, she\\\'s literally the reason we had hard evidence of the conspiracy in the first place and trusted \\\'\\\'so much\\\'\\\' on her word that we even fired Saren, hired Shepherd, and sent him to go KILL Saren....but it\\\'s not like THAT\\\'S a reason to trust her on anything else! She went home, that makes her untrustworthy because she...went home!\\\"

Just like they\\\'re willing to disregard what Shephard has to say about the Reapers when he\\\'s...oh...\\\'\\\'the guy they hired to look into it.\\\'\\\' If they\\\'re not willing to trust him when they themselves hired him \\\'\\\'because\\\'\\\' they trusted him to look into this, then how do they have anything close to a point in not trusting him?

Yea, great details there. Real convincing argument in the favor of the Council - \\\"Well of course they have a valid point, they\\\'re apparently racist and willing to completely disregard the work of the guy they hired because they think what he says sounds stupid even though everything he\\\'s said up until now checks out given that our entire base is now on fire and thousands are dead because we ignored him the last time he pointed this out! What poor misunderstood strawmen are we!\\\"

By the way, you don\\\'t get to set a time limit on when entries are \\\"okay\\\". That\\\'s just a straight up edit war.
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