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

Communication from the US are domestic surveillance

Carter 13 Chelsea J. Carter and Jessica Yellin, CNN August 10, 2013 Obama: Snowden can 'make his case' in court; no Olympics boycott http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/09/politics/obama-news-conference/

Since Snowden leaked secret documents to the media, critics have called the NSA's domestic surveillance -- including a program that monitors the metadata of domestic phone calls -- a government overreach. Many of those same critics have asked the Obama administration and Congress to rein in the programs.