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(19,429 posts) Tue Jun 11, 2013, 08:32 PM Jun 2013

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CIA snitch holed up in HK

A former CIA worker who has spilled the beans on a secret US program is lying low in a Hong Kong hotel as an extradition clamor looms.

Edward Snowden, 29, has revealed he is the whistle-blower behind leaked details of a massive plan to monitor internet users. He fears it could "mark my end."

Snowden flew to Hong Kong on May 20 after copying the last set of documents he intended to disclose at the National Security Agency's office in Hawaii, The Guardian newspaper said, and is now holed up in a hotel room.

Regina Ip Lau Suk-yee, former security chief, said yesterday Snowden should leave the city.

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