The usual reason for all the redacting and fragmented releases of information, while it appears suspicious, is that either certain individuals who are sources, technical capabilities, or other cases / subjects are impacted if you provide all the details of the case. Just trowing all the information out there might impact spin off cases etc.
The public gets a filtered version where you're told the facts as they pertain to the case of interest, but without how that information may have been collected etc.
However, if someone like Patel and Bongino are smart, they realize that their integrity, is literally all they have with the public.
Once they squander that, there is no coming back and they greatly lose how effective they are in their leadership position.
In their position, to be effective, you are both internal and external to your organization, and once you destroy the public's trust, you become less effective externally (public, media, legislators).
People like Comey (he had me fooled in the beginning) know this and pretend to have integrity, but eventually they reveal themselves. You can't fake this. You can't long term trick the people by merely talking the talk and in secret playing games. You have to actually be as objective, neutral, transparent and honest as possible.
Good post—but there is one piece you did not mention.
Competence.
If you are fooled by what liars tell you then it will undermine you very badly.