FBI Director Kash Patel’s insistence that the bureau has been delivering “transparency” didn’t go to plan.

Patel’s vague claim on X Monday—“The transparency I promised is being delivered by this FBI”—was soon slapped with several reminders that the Trump administration has been dragging its heels about releasing additional files related to dead sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

X users added context through three links. The first was a Forbes article explaining why Patel was “misleading” in claiming last month that court orders were blocking the release of the Epstein files.

The second link was a recap by House Judiciary Committee ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Democrat, of Patel’s testimony to that body. Patel refused to answer several questions about Epstein, at one point choosing t

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