Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Vanderbilt | Judge:
1AC
Advantage One: Terrorism 

CIA supervision of drone strikes make it at an all-time high
The Canberra Times 6/19
(The Canberra Times, “New way to fight terrorism,” 6/19/13, EGM, 8/5/13)
New way to fight terrorism B ritish Prime Minister David Cameron and He is currently working in the UK.

We have two internal links--
A) Drones create blowback terrorism which is worse than any other form
Gerges 6/21
(Fawaz Gerges, special for CNN, professor of international relations at the London School of Economics where he directs the Middle East Centre, “Why drone strikes are real enemy in 'war on terror,” 6/21/13 http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/21/opinion/terrorism-gerges/index.html, 6/23/13. EGM)
London (CNN) -- In his highly anticipated counterterrorism speechlast month, U.S. President Barack Obama publicly acknowledged and spur some of them down a violent path. 

B) Transparency
CNN, 12
(Wire Staff, Cable News Network. “Drone strikes kill, maim and traumatize too many civilians, U.S. study says.” Date made September 25, 2012. Date retrieved August 14, 2013.  http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/25/world/asia/pakistan-us-drone-strikes)
The report concedes that and
 and review of thousands of pages of documentation and media reporting."

It’s comparatively the biggest threat
Royal, 11
(John Paul, Institute of World Politics, “War Powers and the Age of Terrorism”, http://www.thepresidency.org/storage/Fellows2011/Royal-_Final_Paper.pdf NL)
Proliferation of weapons of mass
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Congress possesses the intrinsic power to rescind and limit these powers.

Advantage Two: Modeling 

US is seeking to lead drone expansion – US guidelines must be finalized first
Reuters, 3/13
(Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters, “As drone monopoly frays, Obama seeks global rules,” 3/17/13, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/17/us-usa-security-drones-idUSBRE92G02720130317, 6/3/13, EGM)
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama, who vastly expanded U.S. drone strikes
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publicly acknowledged that the United States uses drone strikes against al Qaeda. 

But there’s no legal framework now
CFR, 13
(Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Preventive Care, “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies,” January 2013, Council Special Report No. 65, 6/15/13, EGM)
Over the past decade, the use of unmanned aerial systems
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armed drone technology without the requisite normative framework.

*It creates a precedent of uncontrolled drone warfare – escalates to conflicts
Knoll, 12
(David L. Knoll, The Diplomat, “Will America’s Addiction to Drone Strikes Backfire?,” 10/23/12, http://thediplomat.com/flashpoints-blog/2012/10/23/ok-drone-the-global-proliferation-of-uavs/, 8/18/13, EGM)
The swift pace of the development and deployment of UAVs is unsurprising
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that they contribute to rather than detract from U.S. and global security.
The plan creates that necessary framework
Bloomberg, 2/5
(Bloomberg, “Building a Better Drone War”2/5/13
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-06/drone-war-needs-clear-rules-instead-of-more-leaks.html, 8/15/13, EGM)
In fact, the Pentagon’s Joint Special Operations Command should take control of
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would allow the U.S. to stake out the high moral ground.

The US is the only country that can set a precedent  
CFR 13
(Micah Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Preventive Care, “Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies,” January 2013, Council Special Report No. 65, 6/15/13, EGM)

The current trajectory of U.S. drone strike
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normative framework for acceptable use of drones.

Our scenerio is Prolif
There are numerous ways nuclear miscalculations will ensue
Boyle, 13
(Michael, PhD from Cambridge and assistant professor of political science at La Salle University, "The costs and consequences of drone warfare", 2013, www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/International20Affairs/2013/89_1/89_1Boyle.pdf NL)
An important, but overlooked, strategic consequence of the Obama
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authoritarian regimes ¶ even more decisively towards those who wield the coercive instruments of power ¶ and against those who dare to challenge them.

Plan
The United States federal government should switch supervision of the drone program to Title 10 of the United States Code. 

Solvency

Plan makes strikes more accountable and prevents abuses
Zenko, 13
(Micah Zenko is the Douglas Dillon Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He currently serves as vice chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Terrorism. Previously, he worked for five years at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and in Washington, DC, at the Brookings Institution, Congressional Research Service, and State Department's Office of Policy Planning. “Transferring CIA Drone Strikes to the Pentagon.” Date made April 16, 2013. Date retrieved August 14, 2013. http://www.cfr.org/drones/transferring-cia-drone-strikes-pentagon/p30434)
U.S. targeted killings are needlessly made complex and opaque
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cannot hold hearings on covert CIA drone strikes.

Shift to DOD solves
CFR, 13
(Michael Zenko, Council on Foreign Relations Press, “Transferring CIA Drone Strikes to the Pentagon,” Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 31, April 2013, http://www.cfr.org/drones/transferring-cia-drone-strikes-pentagon/p30434, 7/20/13, EGM)
The president should direct that U.S. drone strikes be conducted as DOD
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that the Obama administration claims can have a normative influence on how others use drones

Title 10 creates new limitations which make drones more legitimate
Kaplan, 3/21
(Fred Kaplan, The Slate, “The Drones Are in the Details,” 3/21/13,
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/03/john_brennan_wants_the_pentagon_to_take_command_of_the_cia_s_drone_strike.html, 8/15/13, EGM)
To put it in legal terms, drone strikes in Afghanistan fall under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, which sets rules for the armed forces, while drone strikes in countries outside of official war zones fall under Title 50, which provides authority for covert operations. It defines covert actions as activities “to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad” without the appearance or acknowledgment of a U.S. government role—adding that these actions do “not include traditional military activities.”*¶ Shifting control of drone strikes from the CIA to the military essentially
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conduct secret operations against al-Qaida and affiliated terrorist networks worldwide.¶ 

Getting the CIA out is a pre-req to any effective drone policy
Weber, 2/6
(Peter Weber, The Week, “Will Congress curb Obama's drone strikes?” 2/6/13
http://theweek.com/article/index/239716/will-congress-curb-obamas-drone-strikes, 8/18/13, EGM)
Since at least the 9/11 attacks, Congress has been less than confrontational with the White House over presidential powers to conduct war and anti-terrorism operations, to the dismay of civil libertarians. So we had President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic wiretaps retroactively green-lighted by Congress, torture only officially nixed by a change in presidents, and a big ramping-up of lethal drones being used to kill terrorism suspects under President Obama. But Obama's decision to kill at least two Americans working for al Qaeda in Yemen in 2011, and the legal justification that emerged in a leaked white paper (read below) this week, has caused a big, unusual outcry from both the Left and Right. When was the last time lefties Glenn Greenwald, Salon's Joan Walsh, and MSNBC host Ed Shultz were on the same page as conservatives Patrick (Patterico) Frey, Joe Scarborough, and Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News? ¶ Some members of Congress "uncomfortable with the Obama administration's use of deadly drones," mostly but not all Democrats, are "looking to limit America's authority to kill suspected terrorists, even U.S. citizens," says Lara Jakes of The Associated Press. The Obama team's justification for carrying out drone strikes relies heavily on a law Congress passed three days after the 9/11 attacks that authorizes the military to use "all necessary and appropriate force" — including drone attacks — against al Qaeda and affiliated terrorist groups.¶ "It has to be in the agenda of this Congress to reconsider the scope of action of drones and use of deadly force by the United States around the world because the original authorization of use of force, I think, is being strained to its limits," Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) tells the AP. "We are sort of running on the steam that we acquired right after our country was attacked in the most horrific act of terror in U.S. history," agrees Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.). "We have learned much since 9/11, and now it's time to take a
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leak information about supposedly covert operations. Bloomberg

Switching from the CIA to Pentagon control solves
Reuters 3/13
(Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters, “As drone monopoly frays, Obama seeks global rules,” 3/17/13, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/17/us-usa-security-drones-idUSBRE92G02720130317, 6/3/13, EGM)
INTERNAL DEBATES One focus of U.S. officials' internal debate is whether
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strikes are managed, decided upon, and executed, the second official said.