Lawmakers Urge Harder Line With Russia After Snowden Snub
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Russia’s grant of temporary asylum to former contractor Edward Snowden against U.S. wishes unleashed calls from members of both parties for President Barack Obama to take a harder line against his counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Republican senators including John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina yesterday called the decision “a slap in the face of all Americans.” They urged more limits on U.S. entry and banking access for Russian officials and for the Obama administration to alter missile-defense policy to stop accommodating Russian concerns.