“I was worried they’d ask me to do something that hurts innocent people — and prevent me from telling people it’s happening,” she said in an exclusive interview with CNNMoney.

She felt the need to leave the country for fear of being told to violate the constitution and be forced to shut up about it.

TOR was developed with funding by the US government to help people in repressive regimes be able to get information out without being caught, yet the US gov’t is now hell bent on destroying that system.

Source: Developer of anonymous Tor software dodges FBI, leaves US May 17