Actually, she can't do what she wants. Not when doing so directly affects the safety of other people... the last thing you want to do when your authority is compromised is announce it to the public, even less so without giving your teammates a chance to prepare for the eventual backlash.
[Relatively calm and collected, despite the sensitive subject. He's had a lot of time to get over this and that talk with Rebecca earlier helped a lot. Still... he should probably talk to Lacus.]