won't be living a free and unrestrained life. >> reporter: part of the life he left behind involves his long term girlfriend, lindsay mills, a pole dancer and member of the hawaiian acrobatic dance group with her own youtube channel. she moved with him from maryland to hawaii. and posted this picture of them at a new home just weeks before snowden left for hong kong last month. leaving her in the dark, and "lost at sea without a compass," as she wrote on her blog. snowden told "the guardian" newspaper he sacrificed a lot to challenge the u.s. >> you are living in hawaii in paradise making a ton of money what would it take you make you leave everything behind. >> reporter: in washington members of congress began a series of top secret briefings about the program snowden revealed. officials tell abc news they're not convinced snowden acted alone given the range of secret materials he made public. every computer stroke he entered at the nsa is undergoing intense