HIDE AND SEEK: Policemen stand opposite the consulate of the United States in Hong Kong in this June 10, 2013 photo. Snowden who has checked out of his hotel in Hong Kong has now dropped of sight as US lawmakers called for his extradition. - Reuters
WASHINGTON: A contractor at the National Security Agency who leaked details of top-secret US surveillance programs dropped out of sight in Hong Kong on Monday ahead of a likely push by the US government to have him sent back to the United States to face charges.
Edward Snowden, 29, who provided the information for published reports last week that revealed the NSA's broad monitoring of phone call and Internet data from large companies such as Google and Facebook, checked out of his Hong Kong hotel hours after going public in a video released on Sunday by Britain's Guardian newspaper.
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