Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Georgetown LP | Judge: Whit Whitmore
OFF CASE
1NC
NATO strong from US-EU partnership now – longterm alliance stability in question. Collapse of alliance threatens survival
Rasmussen 13 ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, How to keep NATO strong, Foreign Policy, 4/10/13, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/10/how_to_keep_nato_strong
John Kerry chose Europe as the destination for his first trip abroad as U.
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all of us, because we are all stronger when we stand together.  
Congressional power threatens NATO – Continued executive authority key to NATO
Davidson and Brimley 13 - Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University – Brimley is Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Janine Davidson and Shawn Brimley, The Next Chapter: President Obama’s Second-Term Foreign Policy, Edited by Xenia Dormandy, Jan 2013, http://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/public/Research/Americas/0113pr_dormandy.pdf
At a minimum..... that is dangerously less than the ¶ sum of its parts.
Strong US-NATO key to preventing terrorism, prolif, piracy and cyber war
Rasmussen 13 ANDERS FOGH RASMUSSEN, How to keep NATO strong, Foreign Policy, 4/10/13, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/10/how_to_keep_nato_strong
Striking a new balance within NATO should help us build on what we have gained
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it has no parallel in facilitating the rapid establishment of an international force.
Prolif causes global nuclear war.
Sokolski 9 (Henry, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center and serves on the US congressional Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, “Avoiding a nuclear crowd,” Policy Review, June/July)
AT A MINIMUM, such developments will be a departure from whatever stability existed during
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the proponents of nuclear abolition, nor their critics, would ever want.
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The affirmative represents a strategy of lip service restraint re-affirms executive power granting legitimacy to sovereign manipulation of law
Eric A. Posner Kirkland and Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law AND Adrian Vermeule Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School “The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic”, Oxford: Oxford University Press, USA, 2010 Questia pp 3-5
Some commentators argue that the federal courts have taken over Congress’s role as aninstitutional check
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the crisis except to ratify executive actions in tension with the law.2and#39;
The justifications for restrictions presuppose that the suspension of legal rights is the exception and not, for many people, the rule. This logic perpetuates the logic of legal black holes that subject us to the state of exception
Lorenzo Fabbri PhD in Romance Studies, professor of Italian @ University of Minnesota –areas of research Biopolitics, Continental Philosphy, Humanities, Italian Studies, Critical Theory, Film Studies, and Post-Colonial Studies ¶ “Chronotopologies of the Exception: Agamben and Derrida before the Camps”¶ Diacritics, Volume 39, Number 3, Fall 2009, pp. 77-95 (Article) Published by The Johns Hopkins University Press
I begin with Bruce Ackerman who in “The Emergency Constitution” tried to demarcate
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-juridical spaces that might function as real ¶ exceptions to sovereign power.
This method of sovereign manipulation creates shifts from mere governmentality and biopolitics to death-centric thanatopolitics and causes genocide on the global scale.
Lindsay Anne Hall MA Political Science “Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying” May 7, 2007 (Research paper presented to faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)¶ http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05152007-134833/unrestricted/etd.pdf

Agamben, on the other hand, addresses the intertwinement of medicine, death,
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-power (bureaucratic planning, statistical analysis, population control) may ¶
xpose us to death as a population rather than as individuals. This resistance must be ¶ something greater than simply a call for physician assisted suicide or an appeal for ¶ individual ownership of our bodies, it must first center on an engagement with what ¶ about life is really worth preserving.
Instead of playing into the rational method of the 1ac - more directions for what one ought to do and the proper way to behave, our alternative is to shake the rug out from under the 1acand#39;s mode of legal analysis.
Singer 84  - Associate Professor of Law (Joseph William Singer, Associate Professor of Law at Boston University, 1984, “The Player and the Cards: Nihilism and Legal Theory,” Yale Law Journal (94 Yale L.J. 1)
What shall we do then about legal theory? I think we should abandon the
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live together. We are going to have to answer that question ourselves.
1NC
Text: The President of the United States should issue an executive directive ending CIA targeted killings.
CP solves the aff – ending CIA strikes solves drone prolif, leads to better drone use, and increases transparency
Zenko 13 - Douglas Dillon Fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He currently serves as vice chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Terrorism. Previously, he worked for five years at Harvard Universityand#39;s Kennedy School of Government Micah Zenko, Douglas Dillon Fellow, Council on Foreign relations, Policy Innovation Memorandum No. 31, April 2013, http://www.cfr.org/drones/transferring-cia-drone-strikes-pentagon/p30434
In an interview, President Obama revealed, and#34;I think creating a legal structure
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the precedents of greater openness in how such operations are conducted by others.
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The 1AC leaves unchallenged the referent object of security – not only is the impact extinction, but this makes warfare, threat construction and human insecurity inevitable, turning the aff. Reject the state sponsored security.
Lal 7  - Master of Arts in International Relations (Preerna, 2007, http://gwu.academia.edu/PrernaLal/Papers/646118/Critical_Security_Studies_Deconstructing_the_National_Security_State)
Under the lens of critical theory, there are many problems with the current framework
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discourse by the state, which constructs and perpetuates state identity and existence.
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Drone Prolif
No war over Senkaku Islands- economic interdependence checks  
David A. Beitelman writing for Policy Mic ¶ Senkaku Islands Dispute: Do Not Believe the Hype, China and Japan Are Not About to Go to War, September issue 2012 ¶ http://www.policymic.com/articles/14910/senkaku-islands-dispute-do-not-believe-the-hype-china-and-japan-are-not-about-to-go-to-war

The world is abuzz with the rising tensions between China and Japan in the East
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is in their best interests to resolve differences through negotiation, not war.
No middle east war – multiple reasons
Shaoxian, 2001 (Li, senior researcher in the Institute of Contemporary International relations, “A Whirlwind of Palestine-Israel Violence: Where is it going?” August, http://www.china.org.cn/english/2001/Aug/17671.htm)
Li: Although the situation in the Middle East is alarming, it will not
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do want to see war have neither the capablities or means for war.
Terrorism
Terrorism is blown out of proportion – threats are empirically denied.
Mueller ’05 (John, “Is There Still a Terrorist Threat?” FOREIGN AFFAIRS v. 85 n. 5, September/October)
But while keeping such potential dangers in mind, it is worth remembering that the
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taxing all to defend the United States against an enemy that scarcely exists.
No incentive to inflict mass death and it’s easy getting caught.
Sprinzak ‘98 (Ehud, “The Great Superterrorism Scare”, Foreign Policy, September 28, http://radiobergen.org/terrorism/super-1.html)
There is, however, a problem with this two-part logic. Although
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should make effective interdiction of potential superterrorists easier than todayand#39;s overheated rhetoric suggests.
No retaliation
Jenkins-Smith and Herron 2005 (Hank, Ph.D., Professor at the University of Oklahoma, and Kerry G., Professor at the University of Oklahoma,  and#34;United States Public Response to Terrorism: Fault Lines or Bedrock?and#34;  http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000andcontext=hjsmith)  
Our final contrasting set of expectations relates to the degree to which the public will
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lines in times of crises, it remains securely anchored in bedrock beliefs.

Solvency
CIA still controls drone strikes
Bennett 13 - managing editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution  Wells Bennett, Exactly what targeted killings duties are shifting from CIA to DOD?, Lawfare, 3/21/13, http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/03/exactly-what-targeted-killing-duties-are-shifting-from-cia-to-dod/
To that, we can add this afternoon’s dispatch from the New York Times’ Scott
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it is hard to know what the interagency transition really will look like.
Drones have already proliferated globally
Bergen and Rowland 12 - CNNand#39;s national security analyst, is director of the national security studies program at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank that seeks innovative solutions across the ideological spectrum and Rowland is a program associate at the New America Foundation Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland, A Dangerous New World of Drones, CNN.com, 10/8/12, http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/01/opinion/bergen-world-of-drones
Drone technology is proliferating rapidly. A 2011 study estimated that there were around 680
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, though it does not yet have drones capable of striking other targets.
Congress empirically just rubber stamps drones.
Barry 13 - senior policy analyst at CIP, where he directs the TransBorder project Tom Barry, Drones over the homeland How Politics, money and lack of oversight have sparked Drone Proliferation, and what we can do, International Policy Support, April 2013, http://www.ciponline.org/images/uploads/publications/IPR_Drones_over_Homeland_Final.pdf
Since 2004, the DHS’s UAV program has drawn ¶ mounting concern and criticism from
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both parties seem more intent ¶ on boosting drone purchases and drone deployment.