They're too busy arguing over next week's "wake-up music" hit parade, so that they can keep the idiots happy. You know, the morons who are happy to pay, because the government is so advanced that they've even been able to design robots that can listen to music, and wake up when they hear it.
(If anyone doesn't realize that that's the point of this stupid "wake-up music" charade, well, wanna buy a bridge?)
On a less sarcastic note (note that I did not say "a more serious note"), I suspect they're going "oh, shiiii..." and trying to figure out how to gracefully ignore the elephant under the rug.
After enduring decades of bovina fecundis from the Tinfoil Brigade, who "saw" everything from the infamous "face", to "machinery" on the ground (rocks) to "buildings" on the "Twin Peaks" hills (jpeg artifacts), they're suddenly confronted with some genuinely "interesting" stuff, and what do they do? They let the beneficiaries of the taxpayer' largese sit on the "interesting" stuff, until they've had a chance to play with it by themselves, "prepare for publication", blah blah blah.
How do you spell "outrage"? Hint: It's a four letter word, begins with "N".
To be a fly on the wall...