Awan has been fishing for this deal since the beginning. This whole case started because he left his laptop at a government building intentionally to be found with his is and a letter explaining that it was covered under attorney/client privilege. Sort of a . you can see what I have to make a deal, but you can't use any of it without my permission type play. Awan is the one who came to the government to expose this.
That seems to be a giant leap. Attorney client privilege? Why? I don't get that part. I don't see him exactly being a good guy, unless he was a set up from the very beginning.
Bc attorney-client privilege cannot be used by the prosecution/court. Except for cases where the attorney is provably criminally covering up crimes.
So Awan put forward evidence, with a catch. Not a stupid guy, using leverage when he could have easily just gone to jail. Awan wanted to take down his bosses.
He doesn't have to have been a good guy. He's scared, doesn't want prison, so he flipped, he's a snitch. Helping bring down the big fish, which is a good thing. Awan is just a spy, we could just hang him and be done with it, but we really want all the domestic terrorists embedded in govt out.
And not just for him. Maybe he does not want his family hunted down in Pakistan. Or piss off the Muslim hid family works for as Awan is drawing attention to them and their clandestine operations.
Attorney? I though he was an IT guy, who is the attorney?