Last night I went to a 2-hour movie, and came back to 5 solid hours' worth of thread-reading on one single case, lol.
Maybe IP was grabbed on the fly as a hostile witness for the affidavit?
I mean, the more I think about it, the more I think we're the only people saying or characterizing this as "cooperation".
Just because you get answers out of someone, doesn't mean they're collaborators, or even sympathetic to your point of view - that was the mistake I made when mentally characterizing and referring to MBP as "giving information", after the affidavit first came to light. Just because somebody gives you answers and doesn't "no comment" you, doesn't mean they're actively "cooperating".