Robert Turner, associate director at the center for national security law at the University of Virginia School of Law, believes that as a practical matter, Snowden should have gone to oversight committees or the inspector general without much fear of retaliation.  ”I am very confident that had he gone to the Hill committees or the NSA or DOD or ODNI IGs, it would have been difficult for anyone to engage in retribution against him without considerable personal cost,” he said.  ”I can’t imagine that there is anyone in a senior position in D.C. dealing with the I...