You see, people don't want to know if government has direct access(ok, they want, but it is not their primary concern), they want to know what happened.
It simply doesn't matter if google uploads data to government servers or government gets data from google servers by "directly accessing" them. I would even guess that the latter is simpler to implement and maintain.
I don't mean that google is happy to hand user data to government - they probably aren't - I want to know how many data governments gets.