Tournament: USMA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge:
Observation One:  SSP

SSP is a cornerstone of the secrecy matrix.   Its applications are growing in both frequency and nature despite Congress’ efforts to reform it. 125 recent cases have invoked it
CGS in 13 {Collaboration on Government Secrecy ("CGS") http://www.wcl.american.edu/lawandgov/cgs/about.cfm#ssp}

The state secrets AND in the Senate.

The Supreme Court hasn’t reviewed SSP in a half century which allows the Executive to overreach.   Even when the information is no longer “secret”, the government attempts to use SSP.   Jeppesen proves
ACLU 10 {SLAMMING THE COURTHOUSE DOORS Denial of Access to Justice and Remedy in America Dec http://www.aclu.org/files/assets/HRP_UPRsubmission_annex.pdf p16}
The U.S. government AND half a century.

Bush transformed the use of state secrets privilege (SSP for short)
CCR in 13 {Center for Constitutional Rights Stop the Abuse of the State Secrets Privilege
http://ccrjustice.org/get-involved/action/stop-abuse-state-secrets-privilege!}

The state secrets AND for criminal behavior.

Obama expanded state secrets privilege even further
Balko in 13 {Radley-senior writer and investigative reporter, Huffington Post, 06/27 Government Secrecy Undermines Government's Ability To Keep Secrets http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/government-secrecy-secrets_n_3512665.html}

But it isn't AND illegal government actions.

Thus the Plan:  The Supreme Court should restrict presidential war powers in cases of indefinite detention by confining State Secrets privilege.   As in all judicial matters, the Court may draw from legal precedent, previously-used government guidelines and lower court decisions in formulating grounds for its decision and the Court may issue judicial dictum suggesting clarification by the lower courts and Congress. 

Advantage One: Proliferation  

State Secrets privilege now utilizes the mosaic theory which cements its role as the internal link in maintaining over-classification and secrecy
Kinkopf in 7  {Neil-Professor, Georgia State University College of Law. THE STATE SECRETS PROBLEM:CAN CONGRESS FIX IT?   80 Temple Law Review 2007 http://sites.temple.edu/lawreview/files/2011/07/Kinkopf.pdf p492}

The problem of AND potential for abuse. 

Classification and secrecy hinder nonproliferation efforts, we need more openness and better standards to assess risk
Stepnoi 12 {Nikolai Ponomarev-Apr 19, 2012 Security Index: A Russian Journal on¶ International Security¶ GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY¶ ARCHITECTURE: A KEY TO ENERGY¶ SECURITY¶} 

Measures and actions AND with nuclear energy. 

Accurate intelligence is key to anti-proliferation efforts
Swan in 10 {Darin--University of Maryland University College Cybersecurity Intelligence Community Challenges in Monitoring the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) http://www.academia.edu/1562470/Intelligence_Community_Challenges_in_Monitoring_the_Proliferation_of_Weapons_of_Mass_Destruction_WMD p1-2}

In monitoring the AND remove such programs. 

FAILURE OF ANTI-PROLIFERATION EFFORTS WILL USHER IN GREATEST AGE OF PROLIFERATION IN HISTORY
Wall Street Journal I 13 {April 7, 2013 The Coming Nuclear Breakout  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324050304578408640883606814.html}
This anti-proliferation failure AND the atomic age. 

Proliferation threatens to kill millions through accident or conflict and causes environmental catastrophe
London Times, 2009 (Scrapping nuclear arms is now real politik, April, Pro Quest, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6011286.ece , June 23)

In London, they AND proliferation and terrorism. 

Advantage Two: Information Security   

Abusing the power to keep secrets, dilutes the gatekeeper pool, corrodes the classification authority, threatens national security, risks lives, and makes dangerous security leaks inevitable.  
Goitein and Shapiro in 11 {Elizabeth, co-director,  Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and Nat. Sec. Pgm, David M.-Counsel, Brennan Center’s Liberty and Nat Sec Program, Reducing Over-classification through Accountability http://brennan.3cdn.net/3cb5dc88d210b8558b_38m6b0ag0.pdf p8-9}

Unnecessary secrecy also AND genuinely worth keeping. 

Loss of information security collapses the entire system
Avlon 13 {John - political director, Newsweek., CNN contributor, won the National Society of Newspaper Columnists’ award for best online column (2012) The Military-Industrial Complex Is Real, and It’s Bigger Than Ever Jun 12 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/12/the-military-industrial-complex-is-real-and-it-s-bigger-than-ever.html}

President Eisenhower was AND endanger our liberties. 

Lack of information security risks national security
NIST in 10 {National Institute of Standards and Technology US Department of Commerce Controls in Federal Information Systems Building Effective Security Assessment Plans Joint Task Force Transformative Initiative Information Security June 2010 http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-53A-rev1/sp800-53A-rev1-final.pdf P1}

Today’s information systems AND of the system. 

And loss in national security destroys counterterrorism efforts, causes extinction
Sid-Ahmed, 04 (Mohamed, Managing Editor for Al-Ahali, “Extinction!” August 26-September 1,
Issue no. 705, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm)

What would be AND all be losers. 

Advantage Three: Separation of Powers

Confining state privilege is key to protecting court credibility and maintaining separation of powers
Frost and Florence in 8 {Amanda-Assoc Prof of Law, American Unive Washington College of Law. Reforming the State Secrets Privilege ACS Issue Brief September Justin-Associate, O’Melveny and Myers, LLP; Nonresident Fellow, Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law. Issue brief drawn in part from Amanda Frost, The State Secrets Privilege and Separation of Powers, 75 FORDHAM  L REV. 1931 (2007) http://www.acslaw.org/files/Frost20FINAL.pdf  P1}

Since September 11 AND state secrets privilege. 

Now is a key time.  Justice Roberts just flooded court with “pro-government secrecy” appointees which will maximize deference
SAVAGE in 13 {Roberts’s Picks Reshaping Secret Surveillance Court  CHARLIE  Washington correspondent, NY Times. July 25 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/us/politics/robertss-picks-reshaping-secret-surveillance-court.html?_r=0}

In making assignments AND will lose credibility. 

Diluting the separation of powers would be catastrophic and make tyranny inevitable
Martin H Redish and Elizabeth J. Cisar, 91 {Louis and Harriet Ancel Professor of Law and Public Policy, Northwestern University and Law Clerk to Chief Judge William Bauer, United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1991} 

However we believe AND constitutionally delineated powers. 

Tyrannical Government is the impetus for all mass-slaughter and violence – it must be avoided to preserve global peace
RJ Rummel, political scientist. « 20th Century Democide ». Death By Government 1994
http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.CHAP1.HTM

Power kills, absolute AND oasis of peace. 

Confining states secrets privilege opens the door to multiple remedies with longstanding histories of successful balancing of national security and litigant rights
Frost and Florence in 8 {Amanda-Assoc Prof of Law, American Univ Wash College of Law. Reforming the State Secrets Privilege ACS Issue Brief September Justin-Associate, O’Melveny and Myers, LLP; Nonresident Fellow, Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law. Issue brief drawn in part from Amanda Frost, The State Secrets Privilege and Separation of Powers, 75 FORDHAM  L REV. 1931 (2007) http://www.acslaw.org/files/Frost20FINAL.pdf  P13}

Such cases were AND in the future. 

The choice isn’t a binary.  Confining opens up lots of ways to avoid any and all disadvantages
Frost and Florence in 8 {Amanda-Assoc Prof of Law, American Unive Washington College of Law. Reforming the State Secrets Privilege ACS Issue Brief September Justin-Associate, O’Melveny and Myers, LLP; Nonresident Fellow, Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law. Issue brief drawn in part from Amanda Frost, The State Secrets Privilege and Separation of Powers, 75 FORDHAM  L REV. 1931 (2007) http://www.acslaw.org/files/Frost20FINAL.pdf  P20}

Fortunately there is AND national security information. 

JUDICIAL REVIEW VITAL TO PREVENT EXECUTIVE TYRANNY
Center for Justice and Accountability et al, Amici Brief, Al Odah v US, 2003 U.S. Briefs 334, January 14, 2004, p. 10

In this balance AND must be resisted. 

DUE PROCESS REQUIRES DETAINEES HAVE MEANINGFUL JUDICIAL REVIEW OF THE DETENTION DECISION
Susan M. Burns, Law Student, Southern Illinois University Law Journal, Spring, 2004, 28 S. Ill. U. L. J. 599, p. 641-2

The obvious private AND a meaningful manner. 

DENYING DUE PROCESS TO ENEMY COMBATANTS RISKS DESTROYING RIGHTS FOR EVERYONE
Justice Rutledge, Dissenting Opinion, In Re Yamashita, 327 U.S. 1; February 4, 1946, p. 78-9 (HARVCL1992)

Wholly apart from AND ultimately for all.