Government bureaucrats can never be trusted - ever!!
They are committed to one thing first and foremost - their career.
Ensuring they can continue and advance in their career necessitates toeing the company line. If they are told to lie, they lie; if they are told to produce a certain result, that's what they do - always and forever.
Step out of line?? Tell the truth?? Defy your superiors?? It's goodbye pension - and for what?? To be ostracized into the "whistleblower" spiral of career and social death??
Given that choice, what would you do??
You are very naive.