>"is an affirmative statement that you have to blow the whistle" upon encountering wrongdoing
its exactly what they told me repeatedly in my time in the army, and that if I comitted a war crime "following orders" would not save my ass. I was instructed on the chain of comman, and other support channels to report attrocities and the laws of war.
that said, the systems knows if they just feed the public a line, the public will eat it up.
if you ever met people who work in politics and government, you know how they feel that lying to the public is fine if its what what *they* perceive as the greater good, which generally tends to be their own personal superstitions and political agendas.
most also beleive that people are stupid and need to be managed, and they should do the managing. Therefor they don't tell your worth the time to explain things to.
When someone in the government says something, to me at least, its prove it, or its propaganda