[Naked Crook]

Yates looked at Reynolds and thought for a moment. Yates: ONI may be clandestine...but we are still the good guys. We have always had the best interest and survival of the human race at heart. Just look at the Spartan II and Spartan III programs...that was our handy work. The Spartan I program; intended to quell the Insurrections in the outer colonies...our handy work. Stategic intel on Covenant fllet movements? You can thank the ONI Prowler corps. Yates paused. Yates: Then we have Nighthawk and Anaconda. Have you ever jeard the old saying that Spartans never die, they are just MIA? We use that to boost moral, to give our men and women in uniform something to believe in. Nighthawk and Anaconda...they take that away. They have been directly responsible for the deaths of roughly a dozen Spartan IIs and Spartan IIIs. They parade the fact they can kill the unkillable. Then we have the other people they have killed. Do you want to see the casualty list? One look at it...and you would be able to identify the bad guys, and you wouldn't give a damn about who the good guys are. Nighthawk and Anaconda have one goal; to interfere with ONI Operations every chance they get. They are here, right now, today, no doubt with every intention to sabotage our efforts to save humanity. Ask yourself, Captain, if these two had our best interests in mind, why are they not giving us precise intel on The Covenant. Why do they not direct us to their homeworld? Why do they hide behind an pair of alias'? Can you trust a man when you cannot even answer a simple question, such as, what is the color of his eyes? On tgat note, would you trust an alian that puts you on the same level that you place a bag of chips?