Board Thread:Episodic and Issue Discussion/@comment-47881-20130219235909/@comment-25866432-20130222233758

Regulus22 wrote: He's a diplomat. Even if he doesn't like it, he's got to do things by the book as the Reach haven't technically done anything wrong that could be proved. Publicly, Captain Atom is buying into the Reach too, he's not a robot.

That, or he's afraid of being ripped in half by Lobo. He never met Lobo. Lobo took down the fake Tseng. And the Reach came "peacefully" and supposedly knocked on the UN's door. I think that Tseng is thoroughly an honest Reach supporter. Outwardly, they do appear to be helping. And you're right that they can't prove anything yet. Even if the League went public with the drink thing  (through STAR labs, which basically appears to be the league's science division, or through Dr. Ray Palmer (aka the Atom), an scientist in his normal life), the Reach could just say, "Oops! We didn't even realize that was in there!" or "Oops! We didn't know that was bad for humans!" and find another way to pacify the human race.