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Solvency

The creation of a federal counterterror oversight court solves all problems with the targeted killing program and all disads to judicial review

Plaw, 2007
~Avery, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
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Academic OneFile. Web. 3 Oct. 2013~ /Wyo-MB
This final section offers a briefcase that there is room for a principled compromise between
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that terrorist targetings carried out in the future are uniformly legitimate and effective.

Plan

The United States federal government should substantially increase statutory restrictions on the war powers authority of the President of the United States by establishing a federal counterterrorism review court with jurisdiction over targeted killing orders.

Terror

Expansive use of targeted killing causes blowback, collateral damage, and operational errors— new guidelines key

Guiora, 2012
~Amos, Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Targeted killing: when proportionality gets all out of proportion, Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law. 45.1-2 (Fall 2012): p235., Academic onefile~ /Wyo-MB
Morality in armed conflict is not a mere mantra: it imposes significant demands on
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becomes a mantra that justifies all action, regardless of method or procedure.

Exclusive executive decision making in drone strikes makes groupthink and errors inevitable

Chebab, 2012
~Ahmad, Georgetown University Law Center, Retrieving the Role of Accountability in the Targeted Killings Context: A Proposal for Judicial Review, 3-30-12, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2031572~~ /Wyo-MB
The practical, pragmatic justification for the COAACC derives largely from considering¶ social psychological
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and other associated deficiencies are inevitable features in Executive Branch decision-making.

Judicial review solves groupthink

Chebab, 2012
~Ahmad, Georgetown University Law Center, Retrieving the Role of Accountability in the Targeted Killings Context: A Proposal for Judicial Review, 3-30-12, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2031572~~ /Wyo-MB
To check the vices of groupthink and shortcomings of human judgment, the psychology literature
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choices and evaluate available alternatives than when subject to little to no review.

Plan is key to effective drone use—solves blowback

Masood 13
 (Hassan, Monmouth College, "Death from the Heavens: The Politics of the United States’ Drone Campaign in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas," 2013) /wyo-mm
Those who support the use of drones as an important counter-insurgency tactic nonetheless
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within the TTP that the Pakistan Army was able to launch the South Waziristan
ng said that whileOffensive, putting the TTP on the defensive. But the lower
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.S. drone strikes have killed more terrorists or produced more terrorists."

Global terror threat is high and attacks against the US are immanent

ETN, 13
~E Turbo News Global Travel News Industry Reporting on information from the State department, US State Department issues worldwide travel warning, 9-26 http://www.eturbonews.com/38306/us-state-department-issues-worldwide-travel-warning~~ /Wyo-MB
The US State Department recently released a statement cautioning Americans traveling abroad of potential terror
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in Pakistan may be planning a new series of attacks against Western targets.

Yes Nuke terror—their defense is wrong on every level

Zimmerman 09
(Peter D., Department of War Studies, King’s College London, "Do We Really Need to Worry? Some Reflections on the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism," Fall 2009, http://www.coedat.nato.int/publications/datr4/01PeterZimmerman.pdf) /wyo-mm
Mueller chooses another set of criteria by which to judge the plausibility of improvised nuclear
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enforcement or the terrorists except to hope for or to guard against betrayals.

Terrorism causes nuclear war and extinction

Ayson 10 
Robert Ayson, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010 ("After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects," Studies in Conflict 26 Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld)
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by
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be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.

Drone Prolif

Drone Prolif Now

Zenko, 2013
~Micah, Council of Foreign Relations, Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies, January 2013, Council Special Report No. 65, Online~ /Wyo-MB
It is estimated that the number of states that have acquired a com- plete
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that there have been intentionally hidden advances toward states’ development of weaponized drones.

The US has a narrow window of opportunity to shape drone proliferation, only US reform based on transparency and restraint will solve

Zenko, 2013
~Micah, Council of Foreign Relations, Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies, January 2013, Council Special Report No. 65, Online~ /Wyo-MB
In short, a world characterized by the proliferation of armed drones—used with
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the future, the United States should undertake the following specific policy recommendations.

Establishing a precedent of transparency and accountability spills over globally– a non-executive framework is key

Brooks 13 (Rosa, Professor of Law – Georgetown University Law Center, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow – New America Foundation, Former Counselor to the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy – Department of Defense, "The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications of Targeted Killing," Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights, 4-23, http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/pdf/04-23-13BrooksTestimony.pdf)
5. Setting Troubling International Precedents Here is an additional reason to worry about the
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them to justify the killing of dissidents, rivals, or unwanted minorities?

The plan solves international norms- US can shape and limit drone prolif and provide the ability to apply diplomatic pressure

Zenko, 2013
~Micah, Council of Foreign Relations, Reforming U.S. Drone Strike Policies, January 2013, Council Special Report No. 65, Online~ /Wyo-MB
History shows that how states adopt and use new military capabilities is often influenced by
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should be informed by comparable efforts in the realms of cyber and space.

Unfettered drone prolif causes deterrence crises that leads to nuclear conflict

Boyle, 13 ~"The costs and consequences of drone warfare", MICHAEL J. BOYLE, International Affairs 89: 1 (2013) 1–29, assistant professor of political science at LaSalle University~
The emergence of this arms race for drones raises at least five long-term
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legal architecture which might avert some of the worst consequences of their use.

China’s drone prolif causes regional war—multiple flashpoints

Standaert, 2012
~Michael, Global Post, Stage set for drone chess match in Asia-Pacific, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/121102/china-drone-UAV-proliferation?page=0,1~ /Wyo-MB
SHENZHEN, China — China’s plans to deploy surveillance drones in the East China and
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from the US for monitoring its own claims in the South China Sea.

SCS conflict causes nuke war

Glaser 12 Bonnie S., Senior Fellow – Center for Strategic and International Studies, "Armed Clash in the South China Sea," CFR, April, http://www.cfr.org/east-asia/armed-clash-south-china-sea/p27883
The risk of conflict in the South China Sea is significant. China, Taiwan
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intensifying bilateral strategic competition would likely make managing such a crisis more difficult.

Senkaku Conflict goes nuclear

John Blaxland 13, Senior Fellow at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, the Australian National University, and Rikki Kersten, Professor of modern Japanese political history in the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies at the College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University, 2/13/13, "Escalating territorial tension in East Asia echoes Europe’s descent into world war," http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2013/02/13/escalating-territorial-tension-in-east-asia-echoes-europes-descent-into-world-war/
The recent activation of Chinese weapons radars aimed at Japanese military platforms around the Senkaku
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that the outcome of wars is rarely as proponents conceived at the outset.

Assessing Chinese motivation is possible and epistemologically useful—-

Joseph K. Clifton 11,
Claremont McKenna College "DISPUTED THEORY AND SECURITY POLICY: RESPONDING TO "THE RISE OF CHINA"," 2011, http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=116426context=cmc_theses
First, motives can be known. Mearsheimer is correct in observing that assessing motives
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, which is preferable because of the possibility of reducing competition and conflict.