I think Wired was the first with the first Silk Road bust, too, or in similar FBI operations. Does the Wired have FBI "sources" or FBI PR contacts that give them these almost-exclusives?
For the record I'm one of the people who believe what the FBI did here is wrong. I imagine if they had know what it is and what it can do early on, they would've shut down Bittorrent Inc, too, for "facilitating piracy", "conspiracy to create piracy", "money laundering" (by making money as a company that creates torrent technology), and some other CFAA charges, for good measure - all of them bullshit.