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2NC/1NR- Link Wall- Stingray Affirmative

1. The public is increasingly willing to allow law enforcement to spy on them if it keeps them safer


NEW YORK TIMES 2013- New York Times, 5/01, “U.S. poll finds-strong-acceptance-for-public-surveillance” http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/us/poll-finds-strong-acceptance-for-public-surveillance.html

Americans overwhelmingly favor installing video surveillance cameras in public places, judging the infringement on their privacy as an acceptable trade-off for greater security from terrorist attacks, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.¶ A week after the Boston Marathon attack, which was unraveled after the release of video footage of the two suspects flushed them out of hiding, 78 percent of people said surveillance cameras were a good idea, the poll found.¶ The receptiveness to cameras on street corners reflects a public that regards terrorism as a fact of life in the United States — 9 out of 10 people polled said Americans would always have to live with the risk — but also a threat that many believe the government can combat effectively through rigorous law enforcement and proper regulation.¶ For all that confidence, there are lingering questions about the role of the nation’s intelligence agencies before the attacks, with people divided about whether they had collected information that could have prevented them (41 percent said they had; 45 percent said they had not).¶ The murkiness of the case — the Tsarnaev brothers’ ties to the Caucasus; the warnings from Russian intelligence about potential extremist sympathies — has clearly left an impression on the public. A majority, 53 percent, said the suspects had links to a larger terrorist group, while 32 percent said they had acted alone.¶ President Obama, in a White House news conference on Tuesday, defended the performance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Homeland Security, saying the agencies had done their job, while acknowledging, “This is hard stuff.”¶ The poll suggested that Americans are willing to tolerate further tough measures to foil future attacks. Sixty-six percent said information about how to make explosives should not be allowed on the Internet, where it would be available to aspiring terrorists, even if some would view that as a form of censorship. Thirty percent said it should be permitted in the interest of free expression.

2. Public support for law enforcement is high- they will view stingray technology as a necessary evil to combat crime


USA Today 2014 “Slow down, police are the good guys: Column” http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/08/21/police-militarization-ferguson-crime-violence-justice-bureau-column/14307505/, August 21

If an American institution inspires public confidence through conspicuous, consistent progress over the course of many years, why seek to change or challenge its direction? That's the question for politicians and activists who denounce alleged "militarization" of local police departments despite their recent achievements in slashing rates of violent crime.¶ Numbers from the authoritative Bureau of Justice Statistics give some indication of the scope of the improvement. The incidence of violent crime reached its all-time high in 1991, and since that time has been cut nearly in half. The homicide rate was also cut at roughly the same pace, reaching its lowest level since 1963. If any other serious social problem — such as poverty, or marital instability — showed similarly encouraging results we would applaud policies that might have contributed to progress. Instead, the American Civil Liberties Union insists that "American policing has become unnecessarily and dangerously militarized, in large part through federal programs that have armed state and local law enforcement agencies with the weapons and tactics of war." Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., enthusiastically agrees, decrying 1997 legislation providing local police forces with free surplus equipment from the Pentagon. But statistics show such programs have done nothing to slow declining crime rates, and might have even accelerated those improvements in public safety.¶ Moreover, there's no evidence that trigger-happy police use more deadly force because they're itching to try their new fire power. The number of annual police killings from 2005 to 2012 remained stable at about 400. Nearly all the tragic, well-publicized incidents of young black males dying at the hands of white cops occur when officers are isolated and vulnerable; none of the controversial recent shootings involved military style deployments with hordes of police in riot gear. Less than a quarter of all police uses of deadly force involved white officers firing at black suspects; in fact, a black male is 60 times more likely to die at the hands of another black male than to perish through actions of a white cop.

2NC/1NR- Link Wall- Security Letters Affirmative




  1. Extend the 1NC link evidence- the public is willing to endure privacy violations if it makes them safer- NSL are vital to preventing terrorism- there would be public backlash against democrats


Wall Street Journal 2014- Wall Street Journal, Oct. 8 “U.S. Asks Court to Overturn National Security Letters Ruling” http://www.wsj.com/articles/appeals-court-asked-to-overturn-nsl-ruling-1412803781

The Federal Bureau of Investigation would lose a powerful tool against terrorism if a federal ruling against the agency’s use of secret requests for information about individuals’ phone usage and electronic transactions isn’t overturned, a U.S. lawyer warned an appeals court hearing the matter.¶ The agency each year issues thousands of the so-called “national security letters,” or NSLs, Justice Department attorney Douglas Letter said during the hearing Wednesday before the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.¶ The letters allow the FBI to obtain records from telephone, banking and Internet companies without court approval as long as the bureau certifies that the records would be relevant to a counterterrorism investigation.¶ “The NSLs are an extremely useful tool to use,” Mr. Letter said during the hourlong hearing before a three-justice panel.¶ The judges are considering the government’s request to overturn a ruling last year by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston of San Francisco, who found that the laws behind the use of NSLs violated constitutional free speech rights because of gag orders that bar recipients from telling anyone about the requests.¶ Judge Illston, who ruled in the case of an unnamed phone company that in 2011 mounted a legal fight against one of these letters, stayed enforcement of her judgment pending appeal.

2. The plan would force a contentious debate over national security and civil liberties- risking a loss for Hillary Clinton


Elias 2014 – Associated Press 10.18 “Court mulls secrecy of national security letters” http://www.publicopiniononline.com/nation-world/ci_26685218/court-mulls-secrecy-national-security-letters

A government lawyer argued Wednesday that national security efforts would be "hamstrung" if the FBI was barred from sending secretive demands for customer data — national security letters — to telecommunication companies, banks and other businesses.¶ The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is considering whether gag orders that bar recipients from discussing the letters are free speech violations rendering the demands unconstitutional.¶ The FBI issues thousands of national security letters annually while investigating terrorism and espionage cases. Unlike warrants, the demands for information are made without judicial oversight. A lower court judge ruled the letters unconstitutional because of the gag orders but allowed the FBI to continue sending the letters, also known as NSLs, pending an appeal.¶ On Wednesday, federal prosecutor Douglas Letter urged the San Francisco-based appeals court to overturn the trial judge's decision. Letter says the NSLs are a crucial tool for combatting terrorism and that the gag order is necessary to protect investigations. Letter said that national security would be "greatly hamstrung" without NSLs.¶ At issue is a 2011 lawsuit filed by an unnamed telecommunications company that received a letter and objected to the gag order. Last year, U.S. District Judge Susan Illston declared the gag order unconstitutional and the FBI appealed.¶ The case pits civil libertarians who say that the letters trample individual rights against government officials who maintain that secrecy is a necessary tool to protect the country against terrorism and other threats.




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