Tournament: KCKCC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lindenwood DJ | Judge:
Contention One – Inherency – 

A private sector task force has investigated and reported on the likelihood of detainee abuse but has no ability to enforce accountability now – creation of an official investigatory commission is key to sending a clear message against torture.
Human Rights Watch 13 (“US: Bipartisan Study Shows Need to Investigate Torture”, 4/16, http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/04/16/us-bipartisan-study-shows-need-investigate-torture)
A bipartisan study…their political leanings.”

Contention Two – Torture – 

Both indefinite detention and detainee abuse continue despite the Obama administration’s slight deviation from Bush-era war on terror practices.
Glaser 13 (John, Editor at Antiwar.com, Published at the American Conservative Magazine, The Daily Caller and Truthout, “Obama Indefinitely Detains, Not Just at Gitmo”, 8/5, http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/08/05/obama-indefinitely-detains-not-just-at-gitmo/)
The debate about…The Second Guantanamo.

Torture dehumanizes victim and torturer alike – its robs humanity of dignity and conditions us to accept violence.  Only finding ways to publically expose and repair the social harms created by torture can break the cycle of vengeance that threatens to collapse the social order.
Chanbonpin 11 (Kim, Assistant Professor of Law at John Marshall Law School, “"We Don't Want Dollars, Just Change": Narrative Counter-Terrorism Strategy, an Inclusive Model for Social Healing, and the Truth About Torture Commission”, 6 Nw. J. L. and Soc. Pol'y 1, Winter, L/N)
Torture by government…repair social harms.

Dehumanization breeds a way of thinking that turns us into a brutal, violent people that won’t think twice about the humanity of those we consider the other – this makes all forms of violence possible.
Crelinsten 3 (Ronald, Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada, Observatorio de Seguranca, “The world of torture: A constructed reality”, http://www.observatoriodeseguranca.org/files/the20world20of20torture.pdf)
Finally, dehumanization is…the torture regime.

Creating an investigatory commission with the power to subpoena and examine executive agencies serves as a warning against future abuses of power.  This establishes public responsibility for official injustices and serves as the basis for corrective action.
BCJ 8 (Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, “Investigating Violations of the Rule of Law in Counter-Terrorism Policy”, 12/29, http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/investigating-violations-rule-law-counter-terrorism-policy)
The Brennan Center…and our values.

Contention Three – Secrecy – 

New revelations of extraordinary rendition expose the lack of transparency associated with detention practices.  Establishing a comprehensive investigation is key to eliminate the shroud of secrecy used to deny responsibility for torture.
Frankel 13 (Allison, ACLU Human Rights Program, “New Information About CIA Extraordinary Rendition Program Highlights Need For Transparency, Accountability”, 7/31, http://www.aclu.org/blog/human-rights-national-security/new-information-about-cia-extraordinary-rendition-program)
We may be…brought to light.

External checks on secrecy in the area of detention are key – otherwise the President will create other legal authority to justify non-disclosure of key information properly in Congress’ possession.
Berman 10 (Emily, Counsel in the Liberty and National Security Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, “Executive Privilege Disputes between Congress and the President: A Legislative Proposal,” 3 Alb. Gov't L. Rev. 741, L/N)
It is apparent…and more transparent.

Upholding the presidential power to engage in excessive secrecyrisks nuclear miscalculation and failure of our defense doctrine – the impact is extinction.
Podesta 6 (John, Chair of the Center for American Progress and the Center for American Progress Action Fund, served as White House chief of staff to President William J. Clinton, served in the president’s cabinet and as a principal on the National Security Council, co-chair of President Barack Obama’s transition, visiting professor of law at Georgetown University, “The Hidden Threat: Combating Government Secrecy in the 21st Century”, Remarks to colloquium on Imagining a New Constitution at Amherst College, 9/15, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/open-government/news/2006/09/15/2182/the-hidden-threat-combating-government-secrecy-in-the-21st-century/)
Openness in government…our nuclear doctrine.

Investigatory commissions overcome the Congressional proclivity to give in to Presidential war powers, allowing the effective exercise of accountability and oversight.  Congressional involvement is key to combating the executive’s tendency towards secrecy and allows the independent exercise of fact-finding that contains the impulse towards misinformed or miscalculated war.
Simon 5 (Jonathan, Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law at University of California at Berkeley, “Parrhesiastic Accountability: Investigatory Commissions and Executive Power in an Age of Terror”, 114 Yale L.J. 1419, April, L/N)
In the United…of investigatory commissions.

PLAN – The United States Congress should prohibit presidential indefinite detention authority not expressly approved by a federal investigatory commission created by Congress with the power to subpoena executive branch officials and access to classified information.