Tournament: Icspring | Round: 2 | Opponent: Rochester Ren-Giang | Judge: Revelins
Observation 1: Black Jails 

Obama closed all-CIA operated black sites in 09 but left a gaping loophole allowing for black jails  
Horton in 10  {Scott   Harper’s Magazine The Stream May 12 Obama’s Black Sites  http://harpers.org/blog/2010/05/obamas-black-sites/}

On January 22 AND as “black jail.”

There are detention facilities throughout Afghanistan some with more than a thousand troops—this network will only continue to grow
Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark (The Guardian, Saturday 19 March 2005, 'One huge US jail' http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/mar/19/terrorism.afghanistan

Prisoner transports crisscross AND been paid compensations. 

Obama has adopted the same rationale as his predecessor to avoid Congressional oversight
NYT in 13  {About Those Black Sites  February 17, 2013  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/opinion/about-those-black-sites.html?_r=0}

Obama has adopted the same rationale as his predecessor to avoid Congressional oversight
NYT in 13  {About Those Black Sites  February 17, 2013  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/18/opinion/about-those-black-sites.html?_r=0}

In a connected AND unlikely to subside.

Unrestricted war powers jeopardize US moral authority.  Our record on torture prevents us from standing up for justice
Davis 11 {Morris Davis guardian.co.uk, Saturday 5 March 2011 America's much abused moral authority}

The United States AND to its rhetoric. 

Loss of moral leadership creates a values gap that has hurt the US globally.   Taking a dramatic moral stance is key to return to responsible leadership is indispensible
Rubin 08 {James P. Professor- Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He served as Asst Sec of State for Public Affairs from 1997-2000. Building a New Atlantic Alliance: Restoring America's Partnership with Europe Foreign Affairs Vol. 87, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 2008), pp.102-103 http://home.comcast.net/~lionelingram/592_NATO_II_Rubin.pdf}

Reports of prisoner AND comes greater responsibility. 

Thus the plan, Congress should increase restrictions on the president’s war powers in indefinite detention through statutory restrictions on the use of black sites. 

Advantage One: East Asian Proliferation

U.S.-China conflict inevitable - moral leadership will decide the winner between China and the U.S.
Xuetong in 11  {Yan- prof of poli sci. dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations at Tsinghua Univ. How China Can Defeat America  NYT Nov 20, 2011 translated by Zhaowen Wu and David Liu from the Chinese. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/opinion/how-china-can-defeat-america.html?pagewanted=alland_r=0}

With China’s growing AND authority will win. 

Even massive arms cuts can’t restore our beleaguered moral authority. Lack of U.S. moral authority will usher in greatest age of proliferation in history
Wall Street Journal 13 {Wall Street Journal April 7, 2013 The Coming Nuclear Breakout  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324050304578408640883606814.html}

This anti-proliferation failure AND the atomic age. 

Asian proliferation risks attack and accident.   North Korean perspective on WMDs has switched from bargaining chips to weapons
Economist 13 {How scary are North Korea's nukes? Apr 17 http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/04/economist-explains-how-scary-north-korea-nukes}

In short, North AND but as weapons. 

New proliferators will be uniquely destabilizing -- guarantees nuclear war
Cimbala, ‘8  Stephen, Distinguished Prof. Pol. Sci. – Penn. State Brandywine, Comparative Strategy, “Anticipatory Attacks: Nuclear Crisis Stability in Future Asia”, 27, InformaWorld 

States with nuclear AND major interstate warfare. 

Advantage Two: Mideast Proliferation

US war powers violations are being used to undermine potential strategies in the Middle East
Issa in 12 {Antoun-News and Opinion Editor at Al-Akhbar English Spare Us the Western Morality on Syria  June 7, 2012  http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/8205}

As news of AND for humanitarian needs. 

The danger of proliferation is palatable.  Twelve countries have declared nuclear ambitions in response to Iran
JVL in 13 {Jewish Virtual Library Fact American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Sheet: Nuclear Proliferation in the Middle East April 2013 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/60_nuclearproliferation.html author’s ellipses}

While the immediate AND for the world.

As US efforts to exert moral authority through military angles fail, crises increase from multiple nations in the Middle East
Wall Street Journal 13 {Wall Street Journal April 7, 2013 The Coming Nuclear Breakout  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324050304578408640883606814.html}

Likewise in the AND proliferate nuclear weapons. 

The impact is Nuclear war
Sokolski, 2009 (Henry-Exec Dir, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, serves on the U.S. Congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism; Avoiding a Nuclear Crowd; http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/46390537.html#n14) 

Combine these proliferation AND would ever want. 

Advantage Three: Dehumanization 

The advocacy of the 1AC exposes black sites where torture and other atrocities are hidden from public view—this act by itself challenges the violent logic of policymaking that relies on keeping these atrocities invisible (this card has been ableist modified)
Gorelick 2008 (Nathaniel; Ph.D candidate-SUNY Buffalo; “Imaginary Renditions: Terror, Torture and the Possibility of an Excessive Ethics in Literature,” Theory and Event 11:2 | Project Muse)

On April 28 AND and stop resistance. 

Torture defies any utilitarian calculus.   It turns people into pawns, robs the tortured of dignity and dehumanizes them.
Evans, 2010 (Rebecca-Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations at Ursinus College, “The Ethics of Torture”, http://www.du.edu/korbel/hrhw/volumes/2007/evans-2007.pdf, accessed 8/8/10)PS 

Torture has once AND occurrence of torture. 

Its power to justify atrocities makes dehumanization worse than nuclear war and environmental apocalypse
Berube 97 (David, Professor of Communication at South Carolina) “Nanotechnological Prolongevity: The Down Side”, NanoTechnology Magazine, June/July  p. 1-6, http://www.cla.sc.edu/ENGL/faculty/berube/prolong.htm) 

This means-ends AND most powerful weapon. 

Torture represents the total degradation of the soul of the victim—the greatest violation imaginable, worse than death.
Luban 2008. {David. “Unthinking the Ticking Bomb.” Georgetown Law: The Scholarly Commons, July http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1070andcontext=fwps_papers}

Many writers have AND of cruel treatment. 

The precariousness of life makes it essential that we comprehend the value of life before we are able to save any lives  
Butler 09 (Judith, Professor of comparative literature @ U. of Berkeley; Frames of War; published 2009; pg. )

Torture must be opposed absolutely—this requires the rejection of any compromise between torture and the law
Zizek 02 (Slavoj; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Social Studies, Ljubljana; Welcome to the Desert of the Real!; p. 102-106) 

Why, then, not AND legal big Other. 

Advantage Four: Perpetual War

Using legislation to render prisoners subhuman in the name of “civilization” reveals barbarism and rationalizes inevitable violence against the other
Butler ‘09 (Judith, Professor of comparative literature @ U. of Berkeley; Frames of War; pg. )

One reality we AND violence is waged. 

The affirmative’s critique of state violence is a prerequisite—without challenging the frames of state violence, uniting diverse struggles is impossible
Butler 09, {Judith, Prof of Rhetoric,U.C.-Berkeley  “Frames of War”,pg. Pg. 133-135}

The historian who AND critique of war. 

This sovereign sense of precariousness culminates in endless warfare and nuclear first-striking
Massumi 07 (Brian, Communication Department of the Université de Montréal , “Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption”) 

Preemption remains the AND for dear life.