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New Details coming to light about theleaker Edward Snowden and how quickly authorities named the suspected, thatsomething was wrong. Also reaction from WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange andthe "RidicuList." Let’s get start.

We begin, though, with the very latest on the Edward Snowden, the defensecontractor who revealed two big government surveillance programs, one targetingyour phone records, the other focused on the Internet in search of terroristconnections.

Just who is this guy? Some early answers now from our Brian Todd.

Described as shy and self-effacing, the man who says he was the source of leaksdetailing massive U.S. surveillance programs tells "The Guardian"newspaper why he did it.

Edward Snowden says, quote, "I'm no different from anyone else."

I'm just another guy who sits there day-to-day in the office, watches what'shappening, and goes, this is something that's not our place to decide. Thepublic needs to decide whether these programs and policies are right or wrong.

Snowden said that from a hotel in Hong Kong, after having left his girlfriendin Hawaii, where they reportedly shared a home. She's not the only person withwhom he may have severed ties by leaking and then going public.

Edward Snowden told "The Guardian" that the only thing he fears isthe harmful effects of all of this on his family, some of whom he said work forthe U.S. government. We have confirmed that his mother, Elizabeth Snowden,works here at the U.S. District Courthouse in Baltimore, Maryland, with thetitle chief deputy clerk for information technology and administrativeservices. Officials here said she was not available to speak to us.

Elizabeth Snowden also did not return our calls and e-mail. Outside her homenear Baltimore, she was no more eager to speak to reporters.

Please do not get in my way. Thank you.

"The Guardian" says Edward Snowden moved to Maryland from ElizabethCity, North Carolina, where he spent his youth. cnn has learned he went toelementary and middle school in Crofton, Maryland, went to Arundel High Schoolnearby but according to "The Guardian" he never got a high schooldegree.

He enlisted in the Army in 2004, was discharged the same year. He told"The Guardian" it was because he broke his legs in a trainingaccident. Snowden told "The Guardian" got his first job at the NSA asa security guard. He later became an I.T. security specialist at the CIA. Fromthere, he went to a private contractor doing work for the NSA. He said hiscomputer skills enabled him to move up quickly, despite the lack of a highschool degree.

Before he took off for Hong Kong, he says he was making $200,000 a year. Edwardtold "The Guardian" he had high hopes when President Obama vowed amore transparent administration, but that he became disappointed in thepresident. We have learned Snowden's name is on two contributions last yeartotaling $500 to libertarian Ron Paul's campaign. Snowden tells "TheGuardian" he hopes for asylum in Iceland, but he also said, quote,"All my options are bad."

Brian Todd, cnn, Ellicott City, Maryland.

Well, as soon as this story broke, we sent our Miguel Marquez to see if hecould learn more about Snowden by going to the last place he was beforedropping off the map and ending up in Hong Kong. Miguel has new reporting thatat least suggests Snowden knew he wouldn't be coming back.

There's that and signs as well that the feds might have been on to him earlierthan previously thought.

Miguel Marquez joins us now from Honolulu.

So before he leaked the classified information, Snowden said that he told hisemployer, Booz Allen Hamilton, that he needed some time off to seek medicaltreatment for epilepsy(癫痫), but you're learning that police actually showed up at his homelast Wednesday, which was the day before "The Guardian"'s report onSnowden's allegedly leaked information. So, just were they there to check onhis welfare?

Yes, this is a part of it that's a little confusing.

They did say there was a realtor at the house when they got there. She saidthat they were just asking, how is he doing, what's going on, but the house wascompletely empty. He had moved out of that house on May 6, never told hisemployer he was moving. He left Hawaii on May 20. And then when these twopolice officers, one uniformed, one out of uniform, the realtor wasn't sure ifthis was a federal official or not, but clearly officials were very concernedthat he hadn't gone back to work and wanted to know where his, where he was,where, exactly his whereabouts.

They, their blood must have run cold when they realized the house that theythought he lived in was completely empty. Anderson.