Resolution resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Violations

Curtail excludes regulation

Moore 85 By Steve Moore, senior writer for On Communications. Network World January, 1985

Total Deregulation lexis

"Even in the light of divestiture," a House Telecommunications Subcommittee aide noted, "the subcommittee not only chose not to regulate computers and DP, but to explicitly curtail or restrict the power of the FCC and the state utility commissions to stray into that -- with one exception."

DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE

GATHERING INTELLIGENCE ON US PERSONS IS DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE

Domestic surveillance is info gathering on US persons

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Domestic surveillance is the acquisition of nonpublic information concerning United States persons.

Domestic surveillance is intelligence gathering on US persons

Small 8 MATTHEW L. SMALL. United States Air Force Academy 2008 Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, Presidential Fellows Program paper "His Eyes are Watching You: Domestic Surveillance, Civil Liberties and Executive Power during Times of National Crisis" http://cspc.nonprofitsoapbox.com/storage/documents/Fellows2008/Small.pdf

Before one can make any sort of assessment of domestic surveillance policies, it is first necessary to narrow the scope of the term “domestic surveillance.” Domestic surveillance is a subset of intelligence gathering. Intelligence, as it is to be understood in this context, is “information that meets the stated or understood needs of policy makers and has been collected, processed and narrowed to meet those needs” (Lowenthal 2006, 2). In essence, domestic surveillance is a means to an end; the end being intelligence. The intelligence community best understands domestic surveillance as the acquisition of nonpublic information concerning United States persons (Executive Order 12333 (3.4) (i)). With this definition domestic surveillance remains an overly broad concept. This paper’s analysis, in terms of President Bush’s policies, focuses on electronic surveillance; specifically, wiretapping phone lines and obtaining caller information from phone companies. Section f of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 defines electronic surveillance as:

[T]he acquisition by an electronic, mechanical, or other surveillance device of the contents of any wire or radio communication sent by or intended to be received by a particular, known United States person who is in the United States, if the contents are acquired by intentionally targeting that United States person, under circumstances in which a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy and a warrant would be required for law enforcement purposes;