In THE PUBLIC EYE: Photos of Snowden and US President Barack Obama printed on the front pages of local English and Chinese newspapers in Hong Kong. - Reuters
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON: Long before he became known worldwide as the NSA contractor who exposed top-secret US government surveillance programs, Edward Snowden worked for a Japanese anime company run by friends and went by the nicknames "The True HOOHA" and "Phish."
In 2002, he was 18 years old, a high-school dropout and his parents had just divorced. On the tiny anime company's website, he wrote of his skills with video games and popularity with women.
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