But they can’t sense the Sith Lord sitting across from them.
If you’re wearing a black hood, calling yourself Lord Sidious, and you’re making a collect hologram call to the Sepratists, that’s kind of suspicious. Lego Star Wars made a joke about Palpatine forgetting to take the hood off in front of the Jedi.
I don’t understand. He’s not making these calls with the Jedi in the room.
As for why they can’t sense him, they do sense the dark side of the force around the Chancellor. But It’s a far cry from “he’s an unsavory man” to “the guy running the galaxy is also the Sith lord we’ve been hunting”.
It’s called hiding in plain sight.
Or it’s the Jedi can’t solve a mystery over ten years that the Scooby Doo gang could figure out in 20 minutes?
If the President of the USA was secretly Cobra Commander, you don’t think a scheduling conflict might arise while he’s wearing the blue outfit with the cool helmet? Being a president or the Chancellor of the Republic is like living in a bubble, you don’t go to the bathroom without someone knowing your whereabouts. Yet Palpatine can sneak off long enough to go to an abandoned building on the rough side of Coruscant.
Of course, this is the prequels, where the window blows out of Palpatine’s office, a major lightsaber battle ensues, and a body falls from a 100 story window, and not one of those red guards shows up. And this is in the wake of his being kidnapped at the beginning of the movie. 😉