controls over their systems and their programmers and their specialists? why didn't anybody notice that this guy was downloading the kind of material this guy did? >> booz allen hired for their expertise in secrecy. there's going to be a lot of questions about that. >> right now it's not entirely clear even where snowden is. a hotel in hong kong says someone using his name checked out today. why flee there? anna is following that angle for us. she joins us live in hong kong this morning. hi there. >> reporter: hi, christine. i think it's a good question, one that everyone wants answered. why would edward snowden get on a plane to hawaii, travel 14 hours to hong kong, halfway around the world, to leak this highly sensitive information? there are really two schools of thought as to why he chose this. perhaps he got it wrong. perhaps this was a big mistake because hong kong and the united states has a very healthy relationship. they do have an extradition