So… It sounds like he turned himself in, albeit in the dumbest way possible.

He had been spying successfully for Iran, and looking to defect, or at least back and forth on that possibility.

At some point, he gets orders to deploy to Fort Hood. It’s either around this time, or during this deployment, he reaches out to British security services offering to be a double agent or just be debriefed on his espionage activities? Basically admitting that he was actively compromised, but that he wanted to return to a normal life…

He doesn’t seem like a stupid kid, he just sounds like a kid who got in way over his head, and under all that pressure, made consistently and progressively dumber choices until he eventually got caught.

I don’t know anything else about the story other than what I heard on the news during his escape back when, and what I just read, so it’s possible I’m missing some important information in that summary, I don’t know.