Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard KS | Judge: Jason Regnier

Low risk of cyber escalation – inter-connectedness

Dinniss, 2012.  (Heather Harrison, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the International Law Centre of the Swedish National Defence College. Cyber Warfare and the Laws of War (print book), p. 205)
One of the problems brought on by the interconnectedness .. supply networks resulted in water pumping stations being closed.

Turn – regulating cyber space makes military targets more vulnerable – increases risk of attacks

Dinniss, 2012.  (Heather Harrison, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the International Law Centre of the Swedish National Defence College. Cyber Warfare and the Laws of War (print book), p. 146-147)
Attractive as this suggestion may initially seem, .. attempting to access classified¶military information.

The president simply ignores restrictions on his war powers – Bush presidency proves

Kolin 12 (Andrew – Professor of Political Science at Hilbert College. Ph.D from City University Graduate Center and#34;State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bushand#34; pg 139-140)

A key aspect of the police state mentality is that all persons … of the Bush administration outside a legal framework.

Executive won’t enforce statutory restrictions – a litany of empirics demonstrate presidents can’t be confined via statute, they declare restrictions unconstitutional

Weinberger, 2009.(Seth, assistant professor of politics and government at Puget Sound.Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror (paper book), p.3)
The 20^th century has seen a massive shift in the … Bosnia Sudan, and Afghanistan (in 1998).

Any example the AFF can give for legislative success in restricting war powers is an exception and not the rule. While Congress may throw a fit along the way, their attempts to limit war powers are merely a farcical waste of time.

Weinberger, 2009.(Seth, assistant professor of politics and government at Puget Sound.Restoring the Balance: War Powers in an Age of Terror (paper book), p.74-76)
Congress is simply not well-suited to challenge the president … of suspected terrorists will be addressed in chapter 5).

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard KS | Judge: Jason Regnier

The reality of presidential power is that it is non-existant – politics acts as a distracting theater from the military-industrial complex acting behind the scenes – institutional action Is hopeless – only an active citizenry can solve

Bacevich 10 (Andrew – PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University and#34;Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent Warand#34; pg. 31-33)

Pretending to the role of Decider, a president … Americans to wake up, pay attention, and reclaim their democracy

Reformism actually works to mask the structural problems behind the imperial presidency – they result in superficial reforms while allowing the government to stop authentic resistance

Kolin 12 (Andrew – Professor of Political Science at Hilbert College. Ph.D from City University Graduate Center and#34;State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bushand#34; pg 221-222)

It remains to be seen whether or not enough … to Guantanamo~n; they are still waiting for a reply.

This endless war causes structural violence, environmental destruction, and destroys deliberative democracy

Bacevich 10 (Andrew – PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University and#34;Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent Warand#34; pg. 223-226)

The world-we are incessantly told-is becoming … discomfort with the progressive militarization of U.S. policy.

The president’s real ability lies in his symbolic economy – their application of widespread authority and power to the president invigorates him with that symbolic power.

Rubenstein 08 (Diane – Professor of Political Rhetoric and Science at Cornell University and#34;This Is Not a President: Sense, Nonsense, and the American Political Imaginaryand#34; pp. 74-75)

-We might as well insert the and#34;idand#34; -a president …mastery of a simulated space. This is the prince’s secret.16

Reject the aff: Rejecting the drive for permanent-war is key to building viable alternatives to the war-driven economy of the U.S.

Bacevich 10 (Andrew – PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Chair of International Relations; Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University and#34;Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent Warand#34; pg. 229-230)
So proposing to replace the Americancredoand the sacred … offers little support for these propositions.

A focus on the concepts of state security and sovereignty is used as a justification for violence and imperialism

BISWAS 07, (Shampa - Prof – Politics, Whitman, and#34;Empire and Global Public Intellectuals: Reading Edward Said as an International Relations Theoristand#34; Millennium 36 (1)

The recent resuscitation of the project of Empire … and overly concerned with  security and order.

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harvard KS | Judge: Jason Regnier

A. interp

Cyber espionage is distinct from Cyber Offense

Dinniss, 2012.  (Heather Harrison, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the International Law Centre of the Swedish National Defence College. Cyber Warfare and the Laws of War (print book), p. 156)
In the case of electronic espionage, multiple peacetime … Article 29 of the Regulations provides the definition¶ of espionage:

B. The aff draws advantages from cyber espionage

C. Standards

Ground: This inclusion of ground for them will end up being unlawful here because they can draw infinite numbers of extinction cards, like and#34;america will lash outand#34;. This tips the debate towards the affirmative side and allows for sneakily unfair debate.

Limits: This is not the classic case of topic explosion, but they either make a mistake in understanding how cyber operations work or they purposely explode the topic to exclude us from the debate space. Just because espionage is key to cyber offense does not make cyber espionage cyber offense. Espionage at tis root means to spy on something, not to do anything offensive. With this definition in mind, their inclusion of entire contentions based upon something not central to the resolution that at least creates a risk for a fairness impact.

D. Topicality is a voter for fairness, education and severance. All of their cards talk about cyber espionage, as long as their impacts key to cyber offense exist, you vote them down on t.