He’s either an idiot or playing CYA. Difficult to come up with any other good reason for him to do this. If your lawyer says don’t talk, you don’t talk.
Probably a combination of both. Only a fool that is soon to be an incarcerated fool or rat informant says anything to the American Gestapo, A/K/A. FBI other than,
‘I request legal representation.” I also understand that members of Free Republic love, worship, and adore the FBI. I know this from reading the laudatory comments praising FBI Director Comey before and as he was explaining why he refused to indict one Hillary Clinton for her crimes.