Tournament: Hubervermont | Round: 5 | Opponent: West Virginia Bock-Orteza | Judge: Geathers
Welcome to the field.  Below is a sample report.
Rapid Ethnographic Assessment Protocol: CEDA 2010-13 htt 2.1

VILLAGE ASSESSMENTS: GEORGIA STATE, ROCHESTER, HARVARD, VERMONT 

KEY OBSERVATIONS AND FINDINGS
In our review, we have uncovered “the undiscovered country”  an anthropological phenomenon of the academe worthy of comment and notice.  Their order tends to spend inordinate amount of time on their laptops, speaking in hurried phrases with an array of facial ticks, body rhythms and other forms of physical animation.   They endorse several habits that our culture would call unhealthy such as massive consumption of alcohol and Monster, little or no sleep, and inhalation of record-setting amounts of tobacco during two special rituals called “prep time” and “decision time”.   
GENEALOGICAL PERSPECTIVE: In the early part of their history, the male of the species would demonstrate prowess in its search for a mate by carting around five-nine large boxes called “tubs” as the female identified cracks in the sidewalk, staircases and other hazards.  Recently they have entered what is termed the “WHITT-MAN” period where the boxes have been replaced by small viewing devices that when one touches with two fingers slide.  
CONFLICT THEORY:  Every three hours, they suddenly look down at special devices they refer to as “smart phones” and then in response to visible signals, they proceed in a shockingly organized manner to undisclosed locations known only to those who can have access to the secret codes emitted from the smart phones.  They then gather in broods or tribes for what appear to be war councils where the young ones relate the coordinates to the elders and the elders then yell obscenity-laced instructions about impacts, philosophies and something that appears to be either a drink or a unholy site of worship called tea. While both tribes enter the room and mark their spaces with possessions, only one remains inside initially.  The other goes with their elders to seek out a space for their war council.  Interestingly, the tribes may befriend a fellow tribe one round and then engage in battle with them the next.  Terms which are inflammatory include white supremacy, framework and anti-blackness.   It is all governed by the ruling documents known as “pairings” produced by an unseen figure called only “Gary” or “the Larson.”     
AREAS FOR FURTHER STUDY:  More study is needed to discern the meaning of a ritual they call “disclosure”,  the distillation of an artifact identified as “the perm”,  their unusual concern with trimming the hedge and why being called a “novice” sends them into a powerful rage.   Thanks for accepting this report.  

YOUR ACCEPTANCE OF OUR REPORT PLACES THE 1AC AS A SITE OF RESISTANCE BOTH WITHIN THIS DEBATE SPACE AND IN THE LARGER REALM OF THE ACADEME.   IT IS VITAL FOR US TO DEBATE WAR POWERS AND RECOGNIZE OUR ROLE IN HISTORICAL INQUIRY AS KEY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICS.  OUR UNDERSTANDING INFLUENCES DURABLE SHIFTS IN CHECKS AND BALANCES
Dominguez and Thoren 10 {Casey BK, Department of Political Science and IR at the University of San Diego and Kim, University of San Diego, Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, April 1-3, 2010, “The Evolution of Presidential Authority in War Powers”, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1580395}

Students of American AND branches of government.

Our report provides a rationale for the plan that: 

The United States federal government should substantially increase restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States by banning the inclusion of Human Terrain System Programs as part of the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities.  

ADVANTAGE ONE: THE ACADEME 

The 1AC places the entirety of the American empire on trial through the lens of the resolution.  You must answer whether or not the imperial nature of the HTS program is justified. This question is not only fundamental to those who teach in the academy but even more so to its current and future groups of learners.  
Gonzalez 9 (Roberto J. associate professor of anthropology at San Jose State University; “American Counterinsurgency: Human Science and the Human Terrain” p. 109-111)

What if we AND can provide insight

The report we present goes well beyond the mere issue of HTS to a challenge of basic functioning academia that should be important to anyone in debate since we are all part of the academy. Academia is under siege.  The HTS debate has been deflected to everyone’s detriment and the daily threat grows more real. Only through the evolution of the debate can we fully engage in laying the groundwork, intellectually and materially, for such phenomena to potentially flourish in our midst.
Forte 13 {Maximilian-educator, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Spanish, International Relations, and Anthropology. The End of Debates About the Human Terrain System? 17 February 2013author Slouching Towards Sirte: NATO’s War on Libya and Africa Max Forte teaches courses New Imperialism, Indigenous Resurgence, and Globalization,  Decolonizing Anthropology, http://zeroanthropology.net/2013/02/17/the-end-of-debates-about-the-human-terrain-system/}

What could have AND lead to self-delusion.

The logic of human disposability, exposited through a racialized knowledge-matrix, subjugates lives to the imperial politics of invisible violence
Mignolo ‘7 (Walter, argentinian semiotician and prof at Duke, “The De-Colonial Option and the Meaning of Identity in Politics” online)

“Development” was—as AND a racist classification.

Scholars are under siege from a military yearning to exploit their skills as tools in the global extermination of the other.  This weaponizes knowledge and causes escalatory global nuclear conflict
Rule 2010 (James B Rule, PhD Harvard, MA Oxford, BA Brandeis, The Military State of America and the Democratic Left, Dissent Vol. 57 No 1, Winter 2010, MT)

At this moment AND far more alarming

ADVATAGE 2: CULTURE

The militarized articulation of scholarship will result in a securitized cult of expertise.  The current policy of authorizing HTS as part of our military forces weaponizes culture.
Biswas 07—prof, IR, Whitman. PhD (Shampa, Empire and Global Public Intellectuals, Millennium - Journal of International Studies 2007; 36; 117, http://mil.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/36/1/117.pdf, AMiles)

One of the AND I turn next.

These new culture weapon systems sterilize populations “infected” with insurgency – this negotiates cultural autonomy and rationalizes disposable life  
Bell 12 (Colleen is a researcher and doctoral candidate at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York and Lecturer of IR Politics at the University of Saskatchewan. “Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development”, Volume 3, Number 2, Summer 2012, pp. 225-247, MUSE) 

The metaphor of AND quali?es for recognition.’’

The sanitizing effect of cultural re-appropriation accelerates the prospect of extinction
WEATHERFORD 1994 (Jack, Anthropologist, Savages and Civilization: Who Will Survive?, pp. 287-291)

Today we have AND why we disappeared.

Tournament: University of Rochester Brad Smith Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Navy Daly-Dinelli | Judge: Doucette
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 privilege 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 privilege 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 dictum suggesting clarification by the lower courts and/or 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}

This 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)

When presidents Barack Obama 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. 

Observation Two: Solvency

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.

Tournament: Usc | Round: 6 | Opponent: Weber State Hall-Hensley | Judge: Struth
Plan:  The judiciary shall restrict presidential war powers by ruling the presidential signing statement interpreting Title X in Division A of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 attached to the McCain amendment  unconstitutional and limiting future objecting presidential signing statements (OPSS) on indefinite detention to Congressionally-agreed complex issues.     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 opinions and judicial dicta suggesting clarification by the lower courts and Congress.

ADV 1: Thinkability
The Bush signing statement on the McCain Amendment was a particularly egregious extension of war powers

Palmer in 7 {Erin Louise- J.D./M.A, American Univ. Washington College of Law and School of International Service. Reinterpreting Torture: Presidential Signing Statements and the Circumvention of U.S. and International Law http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/14/1palmer.pdf P23} 

The McCain Amendment...what the law is

The discourses of terrorism and nuclear weapons mirror each other as attempts to redefine meaning with words that further elite control and transform the conversation about their use.  Failure to alter this rhetorical approach to terrorism risks global survival and guarantees a global cataclysm 

Lichterman in 9 {Andrew, board member, Western States Legal Foundation.
 Deterrence, Torture, Power Western States Legal Foundation Commentary May 2009 http://www.wslfweb.org/docs/deterrencetorturepower.pdf}

In significant ways, the discourse...equally, or none.

Torture and proliferation both represent extensions of international norms which shape state behavior.  Norms against torture have been weakened by definitional games  

Press, Sagan and Valentino in 13  {Daryl G.- Assoc. Prof., Govt, Dartmouth Coll,   Scott D. -Caroline S.G. Munro Professor,  Poli Sci, and Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford U, Benjamin-Assoc Prof, Government, Dartmouth Coll, Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons American Political Science Feb. http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/24013/FINAL_APSR_Atomic_Aversion.pdf p1-2}

If so, what are...is universally recognizable.

The abuse of power was trumpeted by Obama as a Senator and a candidate.  It is an issue of rhetorical scope and reach. 

Jacobsen 9{Louis -senior writer for PolitiFact and the Tampa Bay Times Exercising his power or venturing into congressional turf? July 24th http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/516/no-signing-statements-nullify-instruction-congress/} 

The promise comes...that first step

The clash of civilizations approach to torture redefined torture as an attack of identity and a maintainer of the racial divide. That redefinition is key to move torture into the fantasy of interrogation and the productive fiction that reflects belief in its application
Razack 9 {Sherene Sociologist  (U of Toronto), author “How Is White Supremacy Embodied? Sexualized Racial Violence at Abu Ghraib” Racism, Empire and Torture, Pt.1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law – Vol 17, Num 2, 2005, pp. 341-363) May 22, 2009 http://www.racismreview.com/blog/2009/05/22/racism-and-torture/}
The “clash of civilizations...fact of empire

The fear that drives this discourse and deterioration of norms contributes every day to the on-going extinction of ecosystems across this planet that cross lines of race, species, culture and status.  We close our eyes to the otherization which allows these travesties to continue under the guise of  “progress.”  Ultimately, it is a question of agency and appetites.  
AbdelRahim in 8
{Dr. Layla, comparatist anthropologist, Ph.D. Université de Montréal, Beyond the Symbolic and towards the Collapse May http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/layla-abdelrahim-beyond-the-symbolic-and-towards-the-collapse}

Those who are worried... diamonds and coal. 

ADV 2: Deference

Signing Statements are the opening wedge in usurping the Court’s power. Absent change, a major check on executive power disappears

Epstein 6 {Richard-James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Prof, University of Chicago, adjunct scholar,  Cato Institute. The Problem With Presidential Signing Statements Article appeared in Chicago Tribune on July 16 http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/problem-presidential-signing-statements}
Modern understanding of...have in the past.

The Executive is pushing the court for absolute deference in war powers arena

Bradley 12  {Curtis- William Van Alstyne Prof of Law, Prof of Public Policy Studies and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Foreign Official Immunity in U.S. Courts Since Samantar Dec 17, 2012}
The U.S. Court of Appeals...head of state.

Deference destroys civilian control of the military
Gilbert, Lieut Colonel, United States Air Forece, 1997 Michael H., USAFA Journal of Legal Studies, 

Without an actual,...by the public.

Civilian control of the military critical in preventing nuclear accidents 

Born, senior fellow in democratic governance at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, 2003 (Hans, Civilian control and democratic accountability for nuclear weapons, in H. Haenggi and T. Winkler,  http://www.dcaf.ch/publications/e-publications/Sec_Gov/Chapter206.pdf ,  accessed: July 15, 2005)

As mentioned in...posses the codes.

Now is a key time.  Chief 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...the government wins.

Accidental launch escalates and kills billions
Forrow, et al., Harvard Medical School, 1998 Lachlan, THE NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE, April 30, 1998, p. http://www.nejm.org/public/1998/0338/0018/1326/5.htm#

Public health professionals...indirect casualties worldwide.

SOLVENCY

Requesting transparency and intentions for signing statements restores balance of power and preserves legitimacy

Lee in 7 {Malinda-  Managing Editor, UCLA Law Review,  Reorienting the Debate on Presidential Signing Statements: The Need for Transparency in the President's Constitutional Objections, Reservations, and Assertions of Power 55 UCLA L. Rev. 705 vol 55, issue #3

Presidential signing statements...executive policy tool

Courts has the ability to update the WPR to reach a resolution that maintains constitutional provisions

Patera 12 First Lieutenant at United States Air Force and Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable M. Jacqueline Regis at State of Minnesota  (John, 33 Hamline J. Pub. L. and Pol'y 387, Spring 2012, “War Powers Resolution in the Age of Drone Warfare: How Drone Technology has Dramatically Reduced the Resolution's Effectiveness as a Curb on Executive Power”)

 The Resolution came....or previous president.

The Supreme Court is the key war powers arbiter

Dehn 11 Assistant Professor, Department of Law, United States Military Academy; J.S.D. Candidate, Columbia University Law School. (John C, Spring, 2011, Temple Law Review, 83 Temp. L. Rev. 599, 35085 words, "THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF AND THE NECESSITIES OF WAR: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK.")
In spite of its...of the United States.

Respect for the judiciary leads to Executive compliance
Manget 2006 (Fred Manget, a member of the Senior Intelligence Service and a former Deputy General Counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, “Intelligence and The Rise of Judicial Intervention,” National Security Law, http://www.nationalsecuritylaw.org/files/pubs/Manget.pdf)
The developing history....watching the watchers.

The court empirically can and should limit war powers

Fisher 2005 (Louis Fisher, senior specialist in separation of Powers with the Congressional Research Service, September 2005, “Judicial Review of the War Power,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol 35, No 3, http://www.constitutionproject.org/pdf/422.pdf)
The sharp disagreements....against the president.

Courts have a key role to play in defining contemporary war powers

Scheindlin 2004 (Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin, United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, and Matthew L. Schwartz, clerk for Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin (2002-2004); Columbia College, B.A., 2000; Columbia Law School, J.D., 2002, “WITH ALL DUE DEFERENCE: ¶ JUDICIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS,” Hofstra Law Review, Vol 32, No 4, http://www.hofstra.edu/PDF/law_lawrev_scheindlin_vol32no4.pdf)
Since the declaration...requires nothing less.

Tournament: Fullerton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Georgia Caplan-Shanker | Judge: Miller
The abuse of power embodied in signing statements was trumpeted by Obama as a Senator and a candidate.  It is an issue of rhetorical scope and reach. 

Jacobsen 9{Louis -senior writer for PolitiFact and the Tampa Bay Times Exercising his power or venturing into congressional turf? July 24th http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/promise/516/no-signing-statements-nullify-instruction-congress/} 

The promise comes...Bush went overboard.

It is a priori to refuse the totalizing drive for stability which has prioritized geopolitics over human rights.  This critical ethos is more important than the particular decision itself. The alternative is the destruction of ethics.
Alex Thomson, lecturer-English Univ of Glasgow, Deconstruction and Democracy, 2005, p. 196-197
The affirmation of...“Yes” to emancipation' 

The impact is extinction. The shaping of policy and the desire to control  history lock the US into a fantasy of total world control resulting in ever-escalating apocalyptic confrontation. It is how we envision domination that is truly dangerous
Lifton ‘3
(Robert Jay, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Psychology, The City University of New York, Superpower Syndrome, pgs. 8-11)
More than that... stubbornness of reality.