Snowden Standoff Threatens Obama-Putin Moscow Summit

The standoff between the U.S. and Russia over fugitive former security contractor Edward Snowden may threaten a September summit between Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, according to former diplomats.

“You know that the president and his advisers are asking what kind of a trip he can have to Moscow with such a big gorilla in the room,” said Stephen Sestanovich, who was U.S. ambassador-at-large responsible for policy toward Russia and former states of the Soviet Union from 1997 to 2001. “Anybody involved in planning that trip is sweating bullets.”