The supposed connection to terrorism is COINBRIEF! This is Coinfire. Its a totally different website. Just my opinion, but I bet the terrorism connection for Josh Garza and Coinbrief are not nearly as bad as the government has made them out to be. You never know though?
As soon as I heard about the coinbrief writer being held for potential links to ISIS I knew that coinfire enemies would try to muddy the waters and attach the story to them instead. After all, if they are willing to take the time to orchestrate massive hacking attacks against coinfire then linking them to this coinbrief story is a very easy thing to do.
The only reason that it was mentioned in the first place was to tie bitcoin to terror funding. From what I have read the writer hadnt written anything in 4 months, he was not regular staff he was freelance. If a kid used to work at McDonalds (as a real employee not a freelance burger flipper) the media wont mention that. Nothing about his writing was in any way involved in his assistance to the guy to get him to Syria. They already had the fact that he co-founded the first arabic language bitcoin exchange or whatever it was, so there was little need to mention the writing gig other than to try to suggest that its a larger problem with bitcoin.