[Topicality]

A2 Counter-Interp - Curtail isnt just modification of programs has to be

more limiting and curtail the amount of information
Straw 14 [BY JOSEPH STRAW NEW YORK DAILY NEWS; Obama calls for modest
constraints on NSA surveillance programs; January 18, 2014, 1:01 AM;
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-calls-constraints-nsa-surveillance-article-
1.1582758]
WASHINGTON The U.S. will modestly constrain but not curtail post-9/11 surveillance
programs that sparked a global uproar when they were exposed by a rogue contractor, President
Obama announced Friday. Regardless of how we got here, Obama said, the task before us now is greater than simply
repairing the damage done to our operations or preventing more disclosures from taking place in the future. National Security
Agency leaker Edward Snowden revealed last year that the government legally but secretly
forces phone companies to turn over billions of records on Americans calls and stores them.
Obama said the NSA will continue to vacuum up billions of U.S. phone call logs, but the
government will set up a new, outside entity to store the data. We have to make some important decisions
about how to protect ourselves and sustain our leadership in the world while upholding the civil liberties and privacy protections our
ideals and our Constitution require, he said in a speech at Justice Department headquarters.

Extend Ball 3 - Surveillance is info-gathering

Blacks Law 15 [Accessed 2015, published as online edition; The Law Dictionary Featuring
Black's Law Dictionary Free Online Legal Dictionary 2nd Ed. Law Dictionary: What is
SURVEILLANCE? definition of SURVEILLANCE (Black's Law Dictionary)]
What is SURVEILLANCE? Observation and collection of data to provide evidence for a purpose. Law
Dictionary: What is SURVEILLANCE? definition of SURVEILLANCE (Black's Law Dictionary)

They are destroying all Neg Generic Ground By playing on a small

unreasonable definition of Curtail and Surveillance they make it impossible
for neg to pre-empt, because they make slight modifications,
Default to Reasonability when evaluating Counter Interpretations Which is
more reasonable? Surveillance as the storage of Information? Or Surveillance as
the direct info gathering? It is the latter and makes this debate more fair for
both teams as there is plenty of aff ground under our interpretation and there
is very little neg ground under the Affs interpretation
[Democracy DA] Aff doesnt even answer this in the 1NC only argument that is
present is the one in CX about Surveillacne Globally This isnt a direct attack
1. They concede that the plan restores democratic and constitutional
legitimacy and that this spills over to the middle East
2. This modeling of Ideals causes a fragile transition from Autocratic
Regimes to Democratic Governments and causes Terrorism which leads
to Instability and an Escalation of Iran Israeli Conflict
This outweighs the entirety of the aff they read no real impact in the 1AC
and their only example is the San Bernandino Shootings while that is
horrible of the deaths this is only 14 our DAs talk about the global long
term effects of the plan while they only talk about the short term
So weigh this round on Magnitude, because we talk about extremely high
magnitude of our impacts This escalation is massive while they only have
short term impacts
[Solvency] They conceded that the USFG is the one determining the
exemption clause the Government knows the risks so will take
advantage of this exemption clause Rand states that the governments
purpose is protection of the nation they know that they need to protect
the nation and the plan curtails the information gathered if they are topical,
and will circumvent the plan
Double Bind Either they are Topical and Link to the DAs and we outweigh
them on Case or they are not and you as the judge dont even need to
analyze anything else in this round and vote negative on a destruction of
fairness in this debate