Whisked out of a luxury Hong Kong hotel, vanishing into the mysterious wing of a Moscow airport, Edward Snowden's continent-jumping, hide-and-seek game seems like the stuff of a pulp thriller.
A senior U.S. intelligence official says there are no plans to end spy programs that track phone and Internet messages around the world in the hope of thwarting terrorist threats, despite anger over them at home and abroad. German and European Union officials have issued complaints over the two National Security Agency programs.