Asked if Abdulmutallab's willingness to talk changed once he had an attorney, Brennan declined to answer. "I'm not going to address what he did before or after he talked with a lawyer,"
In other words, "Yes." I saw that film clip, that was one f**king pathetic answer.
What's the incentive for him to make a deal? No way our courts would give him death, and any other sentence is just a great opportunity for him to go into a system chock full of American Black Muslims who will welcome him as a brother and whom he can try to proselytize into jihad. Without a death sentence being on the table (And since nobody was actually killed, it isn't) the Government has no real leverage here.