美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-06-14

 New details coming to right about the leaker Edward Snowden, and how quickly the authorities may have suspected something was wrong. Also reaction from Wikileaks founder¹ Julian Assange and the &&&&. Let's get started.

We begin, though, with the very lastest on Edward Snowden, the defense² contractor³ who revealed 2 big government surveillance programs: one targeting your phone records, the other focused on the internet in search of terrorist connections. Just who is this guy? Some earlier anwers now from our Brian Todd.

--Dscrbide as shy and self-effacing, the man who says he was the source of leaks detailing massive US surveillance programs, tells the Guardian⁴ Newspaper why he did it.

Edward Snowden says quoted I;m no difference from anyone else.

--I'm just the another guy who sits there day to day in the office watches what is happening and goes, this is something that's not our place to decide. The public 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 girlfriend in Hawaii where they reportedly share a home. She's not the only person with whom he may have severe ties by leaking and then going public.

Edward Snowden told the Guardian that the only thing he fears is the harmful effects of all of these on his family. Some of whom, he said, work for the US government.

We've confirmed that his mother, Elizabeth Snowden, works here at the US District Court House in Baltimore, Maryland, with a title Chief Deputy Clerk for Information Technology and Administrative⁵ Services. Officials here said she's not available to speak to us.

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

--Any comment ...

--Please do not get in my way, thank you.

The Guardian says Edward Snowden moved to Maryland from Elizabeth City north Carolina where he spent his youth. CNN has learnt he went to elementary school and middle school in Crafton, Maryland, went to Arundel High School nearby.

But according to the Guardian, he never got a high school degree. He enlisted⁶ in the army in 2004, was discharged in the same year. He told the Guardian, it was because he broke his legs in a training accident. Snowden told the Guardian he got his first job at the NSA as a security guard. He later became an IT security specialist at the CIA. From there he went to a private contractor doing work for the NSA. He said his computer skills enable him to move up quickly, despite the lack of high school degree. Before he took off Hong Kong, he says he was making 200,000 dollars a year.

Edward Snowden told the Guardian he had high hopes when President Obama vowed⁷ a more transparent⁸ administration, but that he became disappointed in the president.

We've learnt Snowden's name is on 2 contributions last year totally 500 dolars to libertarian Ron Paul's campaign. Snowden tells the Guardian he hopes for an asylum⁹ in Iceland, but he also said quoted all my options are bad. Brian Todd, CNN, Maryland.

As soon as this story broke, we send our Miguel Marquez to see if he can learn more about Snowden by going to the last place he was before dropping off the map and ending up in Hong Kong. Marquez has new reporting tonight that at least suggest Snowden knwo he wouldn't be coming back. There's that and signs as well that the feds might have been on him earlier than previously¹⁰ thought.

Miguel Marquez joins us now from Honolulu. So before he leaked the classified information, Snowden has said he told the employer,  Booz Allen Hamilton, that he needed some time off to see medical treatment for epilepsy. But you're learning that the police actually showed up at his home last Wednesday, which was the day before the Guardian report on Snowden's allegedly leaked information. So, just were they there to check on his welfare?

--Yeah, this is a part of little confusing, they did say there was a realtor at the house, when they got there. She said they were just asking, how's she doing, what's going on. But the house was completely empty. He'd moved out of that house on May 6th, never told his employer he was moving. He left Hawaii on May 20th. And then, when these 2 police officers, one uniform, one out of uniform, the realtor was not sure if it was a federal official or not. But clearly, officials were very concerned that he hadn't gone back to work and wanted to know where he was, where, exactly his whereabouts. They, their blood must have run cold when they realized the house that they thought he lived in was completely empty. Anderson.

1 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

2 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

3 contractor   

n.订约人，承包人，收缩肌

参考例句：

• The Tokyo contractor was asked to kick $ 6000 back as commission.那个东京的承包商被要求退还6000美元作为佣金。
• The style of house the contractor builds depends partly on the lay of the land.承包商所建房屋的式样，有几分要看地势而定。

4 guardian   

n.监护人；守卫者，保护者

参考例句：

• The form must be signed by the child's parents or guardian. 这张表格须由孩子的家长或监护人签字。
• The press is a guardian of the public weal. 报刊是公共福利的卫护者。

5 administrative   

adj.行政的，管理的

参考例句：

• The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
• He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。

6 enlisted   

adj.应募入伍的v.（使）入伍， （使）参军( enlist的过去式和过去分词 )；获得（帮助或支持）

参考例句：

• enlisted men and women 男兵和女兵
• He enlisted with the air force to fight against the enemy. 他应募加入空军对敌作战。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7 vowed   

起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
• I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

8 transparent   

adj.明显的，无疑的；透明的

参考例句：

• The water is so transparent that we can see the fishes swimming.水清澈透明，可以看到鱼儿游来游去。
• The window glass is transparent.窗玻璃是透明的。

9 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

10 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。