[ftxbro]

It's not cynical and at that level it's not called being questionable or evasive. It's called being professional. The kind of sincerity that you seem to be expecting would be called like a nerdy socially unaware engineer type behavior and in the face of some obliviously sincere answer the congressmen would be glancing around looking for the actual CEO or for who the real adult in the room is.

Also asking for a track record of someone in this role in this situation is like if you see a new commercial and you believe everything they tell you is literally true until you see that this specific company's marketing department has a track record for anything less than complete sincerity in its ads or commercials or marketing claims or whatever.