Seeing the discussion on STS about all of this, which is very informative by the way, in hearing the warrant, read out loud (I had a difficult time reading it on my phone), I agree with you. It really does sound like it was the friend calling a week ago that got everyone scrambling to see what they were doing. I can't understand how they were not monitoring them. I remember them saying on STS and other places, oh, LE must be monitoring them to see what they are doing. It doesn't look like they were.
DA was calling CA talking about off'ing herself and going to a non-extradition country, how was that not being monitored and not cause them to immediately act? How is it possible that the only thing that they started looking at wasn't until Monday, November 13th when they got the call from the friend? If that is true, that is beyond scary.