He is a lawyer, and most lawyers would advise their clients that the less they say, the better. Your example would lead to a neat follow-up question, "Who advised you?", which -- according to the document you linked -- might be considered legal grounds for a non-routine search!
The legal arena takes rationality and the rules of debate to their most absurd possible conclusions, and therefore doesn't work in ways that you or I would consider intuitive.
Or, more succintly: politeness could land you in court.
The legal arena takes rationality and the rules of debate to their most absurd possible conclusions, and therefore doesn't work in ways that you or I would consider intuitive.
Or, more succintly: politeness could land you in court.