Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Minnesota | Judge: Leader, Paul
Presidential authority to indefinitely detain enemy combatants extends to practices of “secret detention” and extraordinary rendition. These policies ensure that detainees exist outside the protections of human rights law, allowing for torture and abuse.
Tan ’13 Amy M.L. Tan, MA Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. “Extraordinary Rendition, Victims’ Rights, and State Obligations.” The Josef Korbel Journal of Advanced International Studies – Summer 2013, Volume 5

Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the United States’ intelligence service under President George
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extraordinary rendition, and both programs involved similar kinds of human rights violations.

The specifics of these practices remain shrouded in secrecy, making it impossible to hold government officials accountable.
Open Society Foundations ’13  Open Society Foundations, “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition.” 2013. http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf

Today, more than a decade after September 11, 2001, it is well
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the victims of human rights abuses associated with secret detention and extraordinary rendition.

Status quo reforms fail – Obama’s 2009 executive order regarding the humane treatment of detainees was written to specifically avoid the closing of secret detention facilities or end the practices of extraordinary rendition.
Open Society Foundations ’13  Open Society Foundations, “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition.” 2013. http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf

On January 22, 2009, President Barack Obama issued an executive order directing that
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sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt.”98¶
The current political climate is one which is unable and unwilling to expose or remedy the abusive policies of indefinite detention.
Open Society Foundations ’13  Open Society Foundations, “Globalizing Torture: CIA Secret Detention and Extraordinary Rendition.” 2013. http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/globalizing-torture-20120205.pdf

To make matters worse, U.S. courts have failed to hold the
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transported to face terrorism charges in U.S. federal court.113

This has created a “culture of fear” in which security and secrecy undermine democratic accountability and politics itself becomes instrumentalized. This is “antipolitics” at its worst – a complete withdrawal from moral responsibility and the public sphere.
Giroux ’13  Henry Giroux. “The Shooting Gallery: Obama and the Vanishing Point of Democracy.” February 12, 2013. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/14483-the-shooting-gallery-obama-and-the-vanishing-point-of-democracy

We live at a time in the United States when the notion of political enemies
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that "eradicates political freedom, democratic processes and legality as such."6

This abdication of the public sphere guarantees authoritarian takeover of political life.  Failure to address the structural crises of today will only result in extinction as the material conditions of capitalism, marginalization, or state power remain unchanged.
Boggs ‘97  Carl Boggs, professor of political science at the National University, Los Angeles.  “The Great Retreat: Decline of the Public Sphere in Late Twentieth-CenturyAmerica.”  Theory and Society, Vol. 26.  December 1997

The decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America poses a series
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with civic virtues as the conditions favoring a single center of politics erode. 

Thus the plan: the United States federal government should increase statutory restrictions on the War Powers Authority of the President of the United States to indefinitely detain enemy combatants through the use of secret detentions and extraordinary rendition.
Our affirmation is uniquely key for pedagogical spaces like debate - the colonization of our education through fear surrenders knowledge production to militarism and breeds political indifference. Th