Well...Garret can't very well say what he is not qualified to proclaim, right? There was someone else from Barca who asked the same stuff to Garret as Julius did, maybe she was better at reading between the lines.
I guess I can explain a little about my very limited role in the Zuma. I am only a messenger. I transfer letters between the daimons and the humans. I won't say how much is copy+paste, since that's uh...metagaming or something?
About the Flavia thing: Like any good representative who is not supposed to place those he represents in potentially troublesome situations, Garret, I believe, said what he needed. He said, in a somewhat roundabout way typical of human diplomats (Oh believe me, Garret is definitely more direct than some of Dwilight's human mouths) what hinted along the lines of "The daimons are not meant to be kingmakers. Your choice what to believe." And like anyone who talks in public to humans, he pretty much said "I neither affirm nor deny..." Yeah...you've all heard that before. Annoying sometimes, but it might mean something. No one tried tricky ways to get Garret to slip though. o.O
Keyword here is choice, something I decided independently to make a recurring theme. There is always a choice. Sometimes it might, but actually more rarely than you might think, result in two choices between "Do this, or die". But even then, is it so bad to die, even if you die without knowing why? But then again, most of the time the other choice(s) do not involved actually being destroyed/dead/something so bad and terminal as that. I guess often the choices might be damning no matter which alternative you choose.
Maybe the moral is that you should pay a lot more attention to what your own nobles do than what the Zuma do.