Blumenthal: Let's re-evaluate Russia

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Blumenthal: Let's re-evaluate Russia

Ken Dixon

HARTFORD -- Edward Snowden, the controversial former security contractor who won sanctuary in Russia after leaking intelligence secrets, is a lawbreaker who should be prosecuted, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal charged on Monday.

He also called for a major re-evaluation of U.S.-Russian relations and recommended that President Barack Obama cancel a scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin set for next month in Moscow.

Blumenthal, D-Conn., stopped short of calling for a boycott of the Winter Olympics.

Speaking in the state Capitol complex on proposals to make the nation's secret intelligence court more transparent, Blumenthal said it's "an outrage" that Russia granted Snowden asylum.

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