Forum:KB:"Our ability to use the Force is diminished"

This has been bugging me for....well, I guess since about 2002. In Episode II, Windu suggests to Yoda that it may be time to inform the Senate that "our ability to use the Force is diminished"--and then that goes without explanation forevermore, so far as movie-canon goes (and as far as I've seen in T-canon as well). But with C-canon being so gigantic, it's likely that I haven't come across it in there.

What was meant by this exchange? It sounds so sinister, like it's implying that the Jedi are somehow deceiving the Senate and Republic at large. But that's just how I've read it, without understanding in what way. Is there an in-universe explanation of what exactly this discussion was about? DigiFluid 17:39, December 8, 2011 (UTC)