The USG has no post detection/discovery policy

For decades, people have researched the question: If an ETI is detected, what happens next? What would be the impacts? Should the discovery be shared? If so, how, and when, should the announcement be made?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-detection_policy

However, the USG has not published a post-detection policy, and has not made an official commitment to transparency. There is no obligation, no promise, nothing. If the USG discovers microbes on Mars, or a signal from another star, or a non-human technology within our own star system, they could simply not tell us, delay the announcement for 100 years, engage with it dangerously and unethically (with the exception of requirements of the planetary protection requirements), or whatever they want.

Whether you are a skeptic or a believer, if you think there should be transparency, supporting an official post-detection policy that guarantees that responsible protocols are followed, and that we will have the right to know, should be a no brainier. If someone wrote an open letter demanding one, even Steven Greenstreet and Mick West should be signatories.

Why fight over what the truth is, instead of work together and secure the right to know in the first place?