Obi-Wan was quiet for a while. He'd more or less trained himself not to let slip anything he did in defiance of the Council, but that had also done enormous damage with Anakin.

"I dissented," he said. "I did not believe we should simply hand you over to the Republic - your case deserved to be explored fully by the Jedi Council, instead of seeing you sacrificed on the altar of politics. Not that it matters now."