morning, next door neighbor did something about the government leaking information. i said, what? reporter: he was working here, the honolulu office of government contractor and global consultancy. in a statement, the company had said he had been there for less than three months. over time, that awareness of wrongdoing sort of builds up and you feel compelled to talk about it, and the more you talk about it, the more you re ignored and told it s not a problem, until eventually you realize these things need to be determined by the public, not by somebody hired by the government. reporter: snowden told the government he copied documents, but exactly when is unclear. we do know he asked for time off and moved out of his home here in early may, according to the guardian. he told his boss he needed a couple of weeks off for medical treatment as he suffered from epilepsy. he left hawaii for hong kong on may 20th. it appears no one was the wiser
told the guardian. he left hawaii for good on the 20th of may. he told his girlfriend he was leaving for two weeks and that he d be back apparently, but it raises the question, why is the house empty? where were all the boxes that neighbors say were inside of his garage? where has all his stuff gone and why did his girlfriend then leave hawaii as well, back to the mainland, expecting him back in two weeks? and we haven t been in touch with the girlfriend, is that right? reporter: we have not been in touch with the girlfriend. her father has spoken to us. he says she is on the west coast visiting friends and will return home soon. but it still isn t clear how it is that she s left hawaii without any real understanding of when he was coming back. it is a big question, one of many questions still out there about mr. snowden. we understand that law enforcement have talked to her two times already. wolf? i m sure they ll be speaking to her a little bit more down the road. thanks ver
time, our producers were able to track down that hotel and staff say that edward snowden had just checked out and that he had been there for the past couple of weeks. but certainly, this is a fascinating tale, wolf, that has everybody intrigued. edward snowden arrived in hong kong from hawaii around may 20th, bringing a catalog of secrets with him. he made the upscale mirror hotel his refuge and began giving the washington post and the guardian the secrets he had brought with him. he gave himself the code name verax, he took extraordinary precautions lining the door room of his hotel room with pillows to prevent eavesdropping, and he said leaving the hotel a total of three times during my stay. in an e-mail, he wrote, it is not that i do not value intelligence, but that i oppose omniscient, automatic, mass
treatment as he suffered from epilepsy. he left hawaii for hong kong on may 20th. it appears no one was the wiser about snowden s abrupt departure. last wednesday, police came to his home to check on his welfare, as he had not reported back to work. they found an empty house cleaned and prepped for sale. last wednesday, putting it on the market, police show up. tell me about that? well, they just came to the door and they asked if i knew where the former tenant was, and that he was missing from work and he had a medical condition, and that was all. it just seemed like a missing persons type of a thing. reporter: the following day thursday, london s guardian newspaper leaks the news, but it wasn t until snowden declared himself the source of the documents that anyone knew what he was up to. now, there is one small inconsistency with what snowden