Forge could already tell that Scott was overlooking the elephant in the room. "I am not a representative. If I had to recommend someone it'd either be Sage or Colossus." There were things he could do and things he could not, being on SHIELD's reformed council fell under the latter.
"Just bear this in mind, Project Wideawake was carried out while you were hamstrung with King's red tape. With the unregulated circulation of second and third generation Sentinels SHIELD is taking a big risk considering mutants for their ranks regardless of how high or low those ranks are. Iron Man, War Machine and Saber are still fighting zealots using Sentinels and no matter how many they destroy Bolivar Trask is laughing all the way to the bank."