::::::: Obviously you've never gone hunting; it obviously smells like a duck, looks like one, and sounds like oneof course, you find out the hard way that it's a decoy and you have an arrow protruding out of your neck. 
 ::::::: The Elites are self-sufficient, a species dependent on its own kind to survive. They don't need the Covenant, and they don't need the UNSC. Granted, there may be a trucean agreement between the Elites (and their companions) and the UNSC to put off their own skirmishes for now in favor of their collective survival. Truce =/= Alliance. This is hardly "omg r ppl sux k& we b frendz?" The only reason you're presenting your "detective" argument is because you were called out on lack of sufficient proof, and now you're lashing. Weasel the words "omg Covenant + Humans lol" out of Bungie's mouth, and concede I shall. Bungie has the final word, not XBM's editors. End of story.