That's entirely not what I said.

People who say "You should trust what I say, because I said it. And not trust them, because I said it." holds little credence with me, regardless of who says it (activist, government, individual) - it's an appeal to authority or sympathy.

How much persecution are these people facing, these WikiLeaks activists, day to day?

Point being: 1/ Not all statements are falsifiable 2/ Not all statements's proof can be verified in a reasonable time by an isolated individual 3/ You need heuristics if your objective is to obtain truth while spending an amount of energy/resources below a threshold x 4/ To compute a statement credibility, you take as input the past history of the source and their obedience to their own moral standards, what vested interest do they have in misdirecting you and the plausibility of said assertion to be true within the current context.

The USG does not score well on any of those metrics I am afraid.