A little follow up info I found from browsing the web, Special Agent Arran Mcwhirter, mentioned by Burt's wife on her site, historically is responsible for phone tapping and invasive surveillance for DHS. He has mainly been involved in wiretapping cocaine dealers. He would have surveilled Burts house and reviewed months of conversations before acting. What did he find that he thought was worth the effort?
hes probably got a boss like everyone else and is expected to produce results after wasting time and money
may also be part of a follow up investigation from the btcst , trendon shavers probably has given up the names of the PPT operators
The surveillance would have to show something to create that kind of response from multiple departments. There were some pretty interesting departments there according to the recount of events.
Postal police? They only get involved when the crime happens using the us mail service. You could build a nuclear bomb in your basement and they wouldn't care if you didn't attempt to ship it through the mail. They don't get involved in very many arrests but they do report a multitude of crimes to other departments.
DEA? Their jurisdiction is also very limited. Again, they wouldn't care if you built a nuclear bomb in your basement unless you stuffed it full of illegal narcotics.
Local sheriffs and marshals? It makes sense they would be there for any crime. They're the extra manpower for every local arrest.
DHS? Another strange department to be involved in a money transmitter license case. DHS keeps the bad boo-boos and owies from coming into this country from those other heathen places in the world. They do everything from securing the borders and immigration to securing the Internet from foreign owies. Anything that could have anything to do with keeping those commie pinko fags and their radical ideas overseas would be DHS.
I can see there being 35 people involved with just the above listed departments. That's only seven people per department which would be a normal response force for any department. DEA goes to bust a drug dealer they take 6-7 people. Makes sense for the number of departments.
Using just the information we know about the departments involved in the arrest eliminates the possibility of this having anything to do with running a PPT. It also eliminates the possibility that this was over guns or alcohol. But the most curious thing of all is it eliminates the possibility that this was about a money transmitting license.
the DEA have arrested various people all over the world for all sorts of crimes
google for "joseph rambo hunter arrested in thailand " and hes just one example
who didnt actually have any drugs but it shows the DEA have a lot of power even overseas
if he has sold or exchanged bitcoins that were to be used or had already been used on silk rd etc it would help the DEA justify their excuse for being there
maybe they just want his money if their intelligence has singled him out as being a "big fish" ?
he will possibly be offered a deal to forefit all his assets in exchange for a slap on the wrist etc