Tournament: UMKC | Round: 2 | Opponent: WashU FD | Judge: Candace Villianueva
FIRST ADVANTAGE is HEG

Status quo drone policy tanks U.S. soft power
Zenko 13(Douglas, Fellow at the Douglas Dillon institute, “US Drone Strike Policies,” Council on Foreign Relation, January 22, 2013, http://www.cfr.org/counterterrorism/us-drone-strike-policies/p29849 accessed 8/1)

First, current drone policy risks U.S. alliances key to foreign and military policies – unresolved legitimacy issues
Kennedy 13 (Greg, a Professor of Strategic Foreign Policy at the Defence Studies Department, King's College London, based at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, in Shrivenham, “Drones: Legitimacy and Anti-Americanism,” Parameters 42(4)/43(1) Winter-Spring 2013, Strategic Studies Institute at the United States Army War College¶ http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Issues/WinterSpring_2013/3_Article_Kennedy.pdf¶ p. 26

Alliances key to soft power problem solving
Kreisher 12 (Otto Kreisher, Former Naval Officer/veteran Washington correspondent and defense journalist, “Chuck Hagel, Touted As Next SecDef, Argues For Soft Power, Allies”,  December 10 2012, Breaking Defense, http://breakingdefense.com/2012/12/10/chuck-hagel-touted-as-next-secdef-argues-for-soft-power-allie/   )

Second, drone strikes hurt U.S. credibility – lack of transparency, oversight and restrictions allow any bombing to be blamed on the U.S.
Zenko 13, (Micah, fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, with expertise in Conflict Prevention; US national security policy, military planning and operations and nuclear weapons policy. “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies”, Council on Foerign Relations Special Report no. 65, January 2013 http://www.cfr.org/wars-and-warfare/reforming-us-drone-strike-policies/p29736, pg15)

Credibility will make the difference in maintaining hegemonic standing
APSA 9 (American Political Science Association, The American Political Science Association is the leading professional organization for the study of political science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries. With a range of programs and services for individuals, departments and institutions, APSA brings together political scientists from all fields of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors within and outside academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of politics, “ U.S. Standing in the World:   Causes, Consequences,   and the Future,” Task Force Report, October 2009,
http://www.apsanet.org/media/PDFs/APSAUSStandingShortFinal.pdf
p. 3-4)

Ultimately, soft power is key to US hegemony
Nye 2004 (Joseph S. Nye, political scientist and former Harvard school of government dean, “Soft Power and American Foreign Policy” Vol. 119, No. 2, Summer 2004 , http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/20202345.pdf,p. 260-261)

Hegemony solves extinction- multiple warrants
Thayer 6 (Bradley A. Thayer, associate professor in the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Missouri State University, “In Defense of Primacy,” November/December 2006, Issue 86, National Interest, p.32, EBSCOHost, Accessed Date: 5-7-13 y2k)

NEXT ADVANTAGE is SOP

No checks on executive usage of drones
Scharnau 7-19 (Ralph Scharnau, PhD in US History, “Drone Strikes: U.S. Targeted Killings”, July 19th, 2013, http://www.blogforiowa.com/2013/07/19/drone-strikes-u-s-targeted-killings/)

Drone policy undermines SOP
Fein, 12 (Bruce Fein, associate deputy attorney general under President Reagan and now the head of Bruce Fein and Associates, Inc., “A Limitless Presidency”, August 17th, 2012, http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/limitless-presidency-7360)

We isolate two scenarios:
1.Tyranny
Even small violations of separation of powers must be avoided like nuclear war risks
Redish and Cisar 91 (Martin J. Redish, Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern University.¶ A.B. 1967, University of Pennsylvania; J.D. 1970, Harvard University; AND Elizabeth J. Cisar, Law Clerk to Chief Judge William Bauer, United States Court of Appeals; “"IF ANGELS WERE TO GOVERN"*: THE NEED¶ FOR PRAGMATIC FORMALISM IN¶ SEPARATION OF POWERS¶ THEORY”, THE FEDERALIST No. 51, at 160, December 1991, http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3171andcontext=dlj, accessed August 16th, 2013)

Unfettered presidential power leads to nuclear war
Forrester, 89 (William Ray Forrester, Professor, Hastings College of the Law, University of California and PhD in Law, 57 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1636, “Presidential Wars in the Nuclear Age: An Unresolved Problem” essay, 1989, http://www.lexisnexis.com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/?, accessed August 16th, 2013) 

2.Economy
Separation of powers key to the economy
Stevenson 5 (Dru Stevenson, Assistant Professor, South Texas College of Law (Houston), March 2005, Cardozo Law Review, 26 Cardozo L. Rev. 1535)

Economic crisis triggers war – best empirical evidence supports
Royal ‘10 – Jedediah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, (Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215)

NEXT ADVANTAGE IS TERRORISM

Drone strikes fuel terrorism: revenge, recruitment and civilian backlash--- outweighs any benefit
Boyle 2013 (Michael J., PhD and asst professor of political science @ La Salle University, “The Costs and Consequences of Drone Warfare”, International Affairs, Volume 89, Number 1, January 2013, http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/International20Affairs/2013/89_1/89_1Boyle.pdf, p. 9-10)

Drones literally incinerate vital intelligence by discouraging capture and interrogation
Thiessen 2011 (Marc A. Thiessen, visiting fellow at AEI, November 18, 2011, “We need a terrorist detention and interrogation policy,” American Enterprise Institute, http://www.aei.org/article/foreign-and-defense-policy/terrorism/we-need-a-terrorist-detention-and-interrogation-policy/

Effective joint intelligence efforts are key to stop terrorism.
Cristian and Andreea 13, (M?rc?u Flavius-Cristian, PhD Candidate, Babes-Bolyai University, Ciorei Mihaela Andreea, MA, Constantin Brâncu?i University from Targu-Jiu, THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN THE FIGHT AGAINST TERROR, European Scientific Journal, vol.9, No.2, January 2013, http://eujournal.org/index.php/esj/article/download/708/792)

Terrorism causes miscalculation that draws in Russia and China and culminates in extinction- also causes rising alert levels
Ayson 2010 (Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld)

Rapid escalation in alert levels causes decentralized command authority – makes uncontrollable escalation inevitable
Sagan 1990 (Scott Sagan, professor of political science and co-director of Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, 1990 “Nuclear Alerts and Crisis Management” in “Nuclear diplomacy and crisis management: an International security reader” p. 191-3)

Plan: The United States Congress should establish a federal court with jurisdiction over targeted killing authorization.

Congressional establishment of courts for drones creates clear guidelines and transparency, which combats rights abuses- federal courts cannot enforce their decisions without those things
McKelvey 2011 (Benjamin, Executive Development Editor on the Editorial Board of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, “Due Process Rights and the Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: The Unconstitutional Scope of Executive Killing Power,” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Volume 44, Number 5, November,http://www.vanderbilt.edu/jotl/manage/wp-content/uploads/mckelvey-pdf.pdf, p. 1377-1378)

Drone court solves legal criteria
Harman 2013 (Jane Harman, director, president and chief executive officer of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, February 19, 2013, “Harman: Drone courts can work,” Security Clearance, CNN, http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/19/harman-drone-courts-can-work/)

Establishment of transparent drone procedures key to international perception of legitimacy
Machon 2006 (Maj. Matthew J., US Army Major and investigator for the School of Advanced Military Studies, “Targeted Killing as an Element of U.S. Foreign Policy in the War on Terror”, 5/25/06, http://www.fas.org/irp/eprint/machon.pdf, p. 57)

Congressional checks are key to solve executive power expansion
Marshall ‘8William P. Marshall, Kenan Professor of Law, University of North Carolina. Boston Law Review 88:505. http://www.bu.edu/law/central/jd/organizations/journals/bulr/documents/MARSHALL.pdf ETB

Reforming U.S. drone policies will spur international targeted killing regulations
Farley, 11 (Robert, assistant professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, “Over the Horizon: U.S. Drone Use Sets Global Precedent”, World Politics Review, 12 Oct 2011, http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/10311/over-the-horizon-u-s-drone-use-sets-global-precedent, da 7-31-13) PC