David CookThings in Sochi seem to be going well.
“Visitors to Sochi Olympics will be instantly hacked,” proclaimed Yahoo Sports.
What? To death?
Hotels without water. Bombs hidden in toothpaste tubes. The anti-gay propaganda of the Russian government. The massive threat of regional terrorism, and the frightening chance those terrorists have chemical weapons that spilled over from the Syrian conflict.
“It would be safer if we had the Olympics in North Korea,” one ex-CIA counterterrorism analyst told Mother Jones magazine. “At least they don’t have an active terrorist group blowing things up.”