The Edward Snowden case has taken some wild twists and turns since the NSA hacker leaked information to the world and now as he is holed up in a Russian airport, Senator Lindsey Graham of the United States has said that the country should boycott the 2014 Winter Olympics if they decide to grant him asylum.
According to the Hill.com, the never exaggerating senator said that if the Russians grant him asylum, the country could take the Cold War stance they once did and boycott the Olympics. In 2014 the games are in Sochi and he is now the first senator to say something about the Olympics and Snowden, who has been leaking information about the NSA.
From the report:
"Then-President Carter boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow in 1980 over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Four years later, the Soviets responded by leading a boycott of the Summer Olympics in Los Angeles."
"I would. I would just send the Russians the most unequivocal signal I could send them," Graham (R-S.C.) said when asked about the possibility of a boycott.
"There's many things we can do, but I think the experience of canceling the Olympics the last time around wasn't very good," said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a close ally of Graham's.
"Our position is that Mr. Snowden ought to be expelled and returned to the United States," Carney said, saying that Snowden would be offered "every bit of due process" to which he was entitled and arguing that he was "not a human rights activist" or "dissident."
