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My Criteria is Utilitarianism – promoting the greatest amount of good for the greatest number of people. This is the only system of ethics that can effectively compare and contrast different positions. It is particularly relevant to the Resolution, which asks what the United States ought do.

Shaw 1999 - Chair of the Philosophy Department at San Jose State University William H.,  Contemporary Ethics: Taking Account of Utilitarianism. p. 171-2.

Utilitarianism ties right and wrong … when viewed as a public philosophy.

Even if individual persons must prioritize rights and morals, Governments must focus on the greatest good, because governments have taken on the job of collective protection – they must represent the greatest number of people.

Isaac, 2002 - professor of Political Science at the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana Univ, Jeffrey C. “Ends, Means and politics,” Dissent, Spring)

As writers such as Niccolo … . And it undermines political effectiveness.

Utilitarianism requires us to give priority to ending terrorism – it is the greatest threat to the most people, because of the potential for nuclear terrorism and because it is undeterrable

Freilich 2010 –senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School for International Relations Chuck, also an adjunct professor at NYU.  “Armageddon and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism”, http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/1745/threat-of-nuclear-terrorism). 

President Obama recently convened a global … in pursuit of their objectives. 

Contention 1: Terrorism.

1. After 9/11, the Department of Justice began to monitor all attorney/client conversations for suspected terrorists, prioritizing the Facts about impending terror attacks over attorney client privilege.

Rice 2002 -  professor of law at the Washington College of Law at American University. Paul R. Criminal Justice Magazine Summer 2002 Volume 17 Issue 2 Is the War on Terrorism a War on Attorney-Client Privilege? By Paul R. Rice and Benjamin Parlin Saul http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_magazine_home/crimjust_cjmag_17_2_privilege.html

Immediately following the September 11 terrorist … under the attorney-client privilege." 

2. Monitoring attorney client interactions is essential to fight terrorism. two warrants:

a. It is essential to discover funding sources for terrorism

Rijock, 2013 -  Financial Crime Consultant Kenneth Rijock's Financial Crime Blog June 25, 2013 TERRORIST EXCEPTION TO ATTORNEY-CLIENT PRIVILEGEhttp://rijock.blogspot.com/2013/06/terrorist-exception-to-attorney-client.html

Here's a nasty little surprise for … is suspected of terrorist acts. 

b. Terror suspects may use attorneys to supply information to other terrorists. 

American Bar 2002 (John Elwood, staff writer,  summer, Prosecuting the War on Terrorism: The government’s position on attorney-client monitoring, detainees, and military tribunals, http://www.americanbar.org/publications/criminal_justice_magazine_home/crimjust_cjmag_17_2_prosecuting.html)

Perhaps no other aspect of … being captured. It instructs operatives:

3. Empirically, violating the attorney client privilege for terror suspects has led to successful counter terror operations

NewsMax, 2002 4 Charged With Helping 'Blind Sheik' Commit Terrorism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/667291/posts NEWSMAX ^ | 4/10/02

Four associates of Sheik Omar … attorneys under the new regulations." 

Contention 2 – Prevention of terrorism is key to survival. 

Terrorism is becoming increasingly deadly and the end goal of terrorists is nuclear apocalypse and extinction. 

Matthew Lippman 2003 - Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Illinois at Chicago. THE NEW TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law, Spring, 2003. 10 Tulsa J. Comp. and Int'l L. 297. 

The contemporary era has ushered … -terrorist" thus belies the conventional

Terrorist attacks heighten to nuclear terrorism- this leads to nuclear war. 

Ayson 2010 - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington  (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 33.7, InformaWorld)BB

But these two nuclear worlds—a … still meet with a devastating response.