Tournament: Wayne State | Round: 1 | Opponent: x | Judge: x
Observation 1: Inherency
In May, Obama creates new standards and restrictions on targeted killing, but no oversight exists to ensure that the restrictions are followed – an independent review board would solve.
Winning Progressive, 2013, national security blog by non-profit attorney and author,  “Obama, Drones, and the Need for Transparency and Oversight,” Winning Progressive, http://www.winningprogressive.org/obama-drones-and-the-need-for-transparency-and-oversight, KEL
In his speech, the President announced  AND being done and minimize civilian casualties.

Plan Text
The United States Congress should establish a federal internal review board with oversight jurisdiction over targeted killing authorization. The board will be comprised of military and national security experts chosen by the minority and majority leadership of the House and Senate. The board will assess who should be targeted, the immediate nature of the threat, costs, benefits, blowback, and other merits of Executive Branch targeted killing before action is taken. The decisions of the board will be reviewed by Congressional intelligence committees if the President overrides the recommendations of the board.

Advantage 1: HEGEMONY
We have two scenarios for how plan bolsters US hegemony
A) SOFT POWER
The unpopularity of unrestrained drone usage with our allies and host nations undermines our credibility and standing with allies that harms our ability to use them and only increases the risk of civilian deaths as a result.
Micah Zenko, 2013, Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), “Reforming US Drone Strike Policies,” Council for Foreign Relations Special Report No. 65, January, http://www.cfr.org/wars-and-warfare/reforming-us-drone-strike-policies/p29736, KEL
The choice the United States faces AND critical for identifying targets.

Soft power is key to solve multiple extinction scenarios
Nye 2008 (Joseph, professor of International Relations at Harvard University, “American Power After the Financial Crises,” Foresight Project, 2008, http://www.foresightproject.net/publications/articles/article.asp?p=3533)
The problem for American power AND without the help of others.

And, soft power is key to US hegemony
Nye 2004 (Joseph S. Nye, political scientist and former Harvard school of government dean, “Soft Power and American Foreign Policy” Vol. 119, No. 2, Summer 2004 , http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/20202345.pdf,p. 260-261)
In the global information age, AND . We cannot afford that. 

B) Drone Proliferation
Dozens of actors are on the verge of acquiring drone technology, and they’re following the U.S. example of unrestrained authority to use to preempt threats
Shane, national security correspondent, 11 (Scott, Coming Soon: The Drone Arms Race, New York Times, 8 October 2011, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/sunday-review/coming-soon-the-drone-arms-race.html?_r=2andpagewanted=all, da 7-31-13) PC
Eventually, the United States will face a AND  American drone technology had become a prime target for foreign spies.

Unchecked drone proliferation will undermine US hegemony. Plan creates a normative framework that solves the threat.
Micah Zenko, 2013, Douglas Dillon fellow in the Center for Preventive
Action (CPA) at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), “Reforming US Drone Strike Policies,” Council for Foreign Relations Special Report No. 65, January, http://www.cfr.org/wars-and-warfare/reforming-us-drone-strike-policies/p29736, KEL
Beyond the United States, drones are proliferating AND the United States and its allies.

C) Our impacts
Maintaining US hegemony solves all impacts – collapse causes global nuclear war
Robert Kagan 2007 Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Senior Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund,  “End of Dreams, Return of History,” Hoover Institution, No. 144, August/September, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/6136
The jostling for status and influence among these AND draw the United States back in again. 

There are no impact turns---hegemonic decline emboldens rising power and challengers---US intervention is inevitable, it’s only a question of effectiveness.
Stuart Gottlieb 12 is an Adjunct Professor of International Affairs and Public Policy at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, where he is also an affiliate of the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. He worked as a foreign policy adviser and speechwriter to two senior Democratic senators and has worked on presidential campaigns for both Democratic and Republican candidates. “What if U.S. stops policing the world?” September 19, 2012, http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/18/opinion/gottlieb-us-retrenchment/index.html, Accessed Date: 4-19-13 y2k
But the question is not whether promises AND only raises the stakes down the line.

Advantage 2: TERRORISM
Status Quo risk an inevitable push to ban drone attacks altogether, which non-uniqueness all your disads. The plan creates a stable legal and political foundation for drone policy.
Kenneth Anderson 2013, professor of international law at American University and a member of the Task Force on National Security and Law at the Hoover Institution, June 2013, “The Case For Drones,” Commentary Magazine, http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-case-for-drones/, Kel
Though the critics are wrong to claim that drone warfare AND  effectively to outlaw the practice.

Additionally, the government fears that lawsuits by ACLU and others coming in Status Quo will force too much transparency. An independent review solves the need for court-mandated over-transparency.
Omar S. Bashir, 2012, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and a graduate of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, “Who Watches the Drones?,” Foreign Affairs, Sept 24, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/135373/omar-s-bashir/who-watches-the-drones, KEL
So how much transparency is enough? AND  counterterrorism and human rights recently urged.

A credible drone program is key to combat terrorism
Byman ’13, DANIEL BYMAN is a Professor in the Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Foreign Affairs, July/August 2013, Why Drones Work: The Case for Washington’s Weapon of Choice, online
Despite President Barack Obama’s AND minimizing collateral damage.

Unchecked Terrorism causes Extinction
Robert Ayson, July 2010, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Vol. 33, Issue 7, InformaWorld
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons AND the chances of nuclear restraint.

Observation 2: SOLVENCY
A Congressional created review board deters and restricts un restrained presidential targeted killing and increases the credibility and legitimacy of the program.
Gregory S. McNeal, 2013,  Assoc Professor @ Pepperdine University School of Law; Pepperdine University - School of Public Policy; former Assistant Director of the Institute for Global Security, co-directed a transnational counterterrorism grant program for the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as a legal consultant to the Chief Prosecutor of the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, “Five Ways to Reform the Targeted Killing Program,” Lawfare, April 23, http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/03/its-time-for-a-white-paper-on-congressional-oversight-of-targeted-killings/, KEL
The transparency related accountability reforms AND  conduct audits on specified areas of the program.

The Executive will comply with an Internal Review Board – the political costs of not complying and the credentials of the board members solve.
Gregory S. McNeal, 2013,  Assoc Professor @ Pepperdine University School of Law; Pepperdine University - School of Public Policy; former Assistant Director of the Institute for Global Security, co-directed a transnational counterterrorism grant program for the U.S. Department of Justice, and served as a legal consultant to the Chief Prosecutor of the Department of Defense Office of Military Commissions, “Five Ways to Reform the Targeted Killing Program,” Lawfare, April 23, http://www.lawfareblog.com/2013/03/its-time-for-a-white-paper-on-congressional-oversight-of-targeted-killings/, KEL
The challenge associated with such an approach AND  lodging their critiques.

Observation 3: Preempts
Evaluate consequences – allowing violence for the sake of moral purity is evil
Isaac 2 (Jeffrey C., Professor of Political Science – Indiana-Bloomington, Director – Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life, Ph.D. – Yale, Dissent Magazine, 49(2), “Ends, Means, and Politics”, Spring, Proquest)
As writers such as Niccolo AND undermines political effectiveness.