The former CIA employee who suddenly burst into headlines around the globe by revealing himself as the source of top-secret leaks about U.S. surveillance programs has just as quickly gone to ground again, AP reported. Two days after Edward Snowden checked out of a Hong Kong hotel where he told the Guardian newspaper that he had "no intention of hiding who I am because I know I have done nothing wrong," he was in hiding Wednesday, despite being the central figure in the biggest news story in the world. But a Hong Kong newspaper, the South China Morning Post, said it was able to locate and interview him at a secret place. "I am not here to hide from justice. I am here to reveal criminality," it quoted Snowden as saying. Snowden said he planned to stay in Hong Kong and "fight the United States government in the courts, because I have faith in Hong Kong's rule of law." Snowden, 29, arrived in Hong Kong from his home in Hawaii on May 20, just after taking leave from his National Security Agency contracting firm Booz Allen Hamilton, which has since fired him.
