Ok, tired from work, but on a laptop finally. Here's a try at an assessment of the situation tying it all together.

Ok, Tor's success & team's safety is often brought up in NSA, FBI, & so on discussions but shouldn't be. It's exceptional. It was created to protect military comms. CIA-connected and State Dept found great use for it. Plenty of support from powerful groups just as much as opposition from NSA and FBI. Harder to attack legally as crypto-export exempts apps for resisting censorship, it's non-profit, and source is out there. Technically, it will stop opponents government fans use it against but often fail in reality against NSA or FBI. Potentially. Concept is called NOBUS and they like those things. So, Tor is exceptional in the sense that it's unlikely to get strong, legal or technical attack... destructive attack... by U.S. government's scariest. Less, but some, risk for its developers as well.

Another background is U.S. legal system. Ours is an adversarial system where anything you say to cops can be ignored or used against you as highest form of eyewitness testimony (confession) for conviction. What you say that assures innocence is hearsay and tossed out. Feds and prosecutors can use any number of lies and scams... including fake jobs or deals... to trick you into confession. The result is that around 97% never make it to trial: plea bargained as they appear to have no hope of winning. Prosecutors especially like to make severe examples out of hackers with Aaron Schwartz a recent example. Defense attorneys advice: never talk to the police or consent to searchers. Repeatedly ask for lawyer.

So, we have a woman... idk her so going by the article... that works on Tor project or software. Implies she might be a hacker or possess such skills. An organization that absolutely hates hackers, activists, and Tor contacts her needing help. She and her lawyer agree to meet them to see what's up but they want her alone. They try to contact her directly despite her insistence on a lawyer. At this point, it's either a legitimate request for assistance on a case or they're building a case against her while trying for an early confession or strong evidence using a common tactic. She can't know since they won't tell her. And can legally lie.

She decided to flee to Germany. They'll at least have to present some evidence to get her extradited. She feels she might avoid the NSL's or any forced backdoors over in Germany. She was also going to go over there anyway. So, that's her decision.

Now, it might be a bad idea. One, if FBI's interest was good or small bad, her running to another country just put her on a bad list they keep. Two, running when cops show up indicates guilt to many judges and juries. Three, any protections she has if FBI or NSA target her within American jurisdiction disappeared the moment she left. She can now be targeted by German authorities, NSA, CIA, and Army. It's unlikely outside of electronic eavesdropping or extradition given what I said about Tor being special. So, likely outcomes are that they'll ignore her or we'll find out what they're wanting with higher odds of conviction if it's a charge since she fled.

That's the situation as I see it after studying these organizations for a long time. I'm also operating with very limited information about her and her situation. So, I only have so much confidence in the conclusions.