Update Thread 35 - Insert Snappy Description Here

[Jinx999]

But it's fairly obvious that not letting them contact their homes and families is not going to go down well.
a) The SAO people REALLY want to go home and will react BADLY to any interference in this. Both in terms of acting up and in terms of psychological stability.
b) The longer delay, the less they'll trust the SGC.
c) Getting the Japanese government involved is one of the best ways of keeping the exploitative parts of the US government from thinking they have a free hand.
And it's not like it'd be easy to keep them under wraps. Without damn convincing evidence "The US government is running a covert war with aliens" gets snowed under with a million insane conspiracy theories. "I'm awake, mum." is a much harder message to stop leaking and has a much smaller burden of proof. Their families know where they are and any attempt to hide the message would only piss the sleepers, their families and the Japanese government off.