He always was, wasn't he? I'd like to know how having his command revoked led to him being a senator.

: I'm a little confused about the Chief/Sekibo thing though. Let me know if I'm
: wrong: So, Sekibo's people asked the UEG for extra security for the
: meeting with the Sangheili, because of the Sapien Sunrise. However, this
: request was denied. However the Chief shows up and takes out all the
: Sunrisers anyway, but it seems that Sekibo was injured in the firefight
: and couldn't be saved.

: I don't understand why the request for extra security was denied. I can only
: assume because of ONI's desire to keep the Sangheili fighting each other
: and not Earth, but I'm not really sure how this would achieve that.

Well having the peace talks break down would impede stabilizing things, wouldn't it? I suspect they had something against Sekibo outside of reaching out the Sangheili too. I think they may have engineered the attack that was supposed to happen, and if not they may have encouraged it, but at the very least they were going to let it happen without restriction, and kill two or three birds with one stone-- a lot of the Sangheili would be soured on peace talks and maybe peace in general, this terrorist human supremacist group loses some members and credibility which is good for keeping order, and Sekibo would be out of the way.