Hong Kong: Edward Snowden

Edward Snowden: "I am neither traitor nor hero. I'm an American," Edward Snowden declared to the South China Morning Post about his disclosures of top secret surveillance programs that have rocked Washington, according to CBC. The FBI visited his father's house in Pennsylvania on Monday and The former spy agency contractor who fled to Hong Kong to leak U.S. secrets said he's not there to hide from justice and has faith in "the courts and people of Hong Kong to decide my fate." Snowden said in the interview published Wednesday that he hasn't dared contact his family or his girlfriend since coming forward as the leaker of NSA documents. "I am worried about the pressure they are feeling from the FBI," he said. Read about 10 whistleblowers and the scandals they spurred (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.