JOCELYN:

Hook- The fourth amendment to the U.S Constitution states, The right of the people to be
secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures,
shall not be violated.

Topic Sentence- We believe excessive use of surveillance is unconstitutional for national

security.

EMMA:
Argument #1- The NSA surveillance system does not provide sustainable protections against acts
of terrorism/ violent attacks.
the government's mass surveillance programs of the Patriot Act have never
stopped an act of terrorism, the ACLU notes. That is not the opinion of the NSA's most
ardent critics, but rather the findings of according to the president's own review board and
the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. There is no evidence that it has helped
identify a terrorism suspect or made a concrete difference in the outcome of a
counterterrorism investigation.
Therefore, surveillance cameras only shows evidence to what happened during
the act. It's not helpful for stopping the attack.

GRANT & JACKSON:

Argument #2- Immoderate use of security cameras in the public violates peoples privacy. The
government such as the NSA should not be allowed access to citizens personal electronics.
The American Civil Union states that road surveillance cameras, Capture and
collect the license plate number, and the date, time, and location of every scan.
Attorney, Andrew D. Myers states, a young woman goes to the back of the
office building where she works to change clothes. She later learns a surveillance camera
caught everything, including the times when she had severe sunburn, went to when she
had servers sunburn went to what she thought was a private area, unbuttoned her blouse
and applied prescription ointment.
According to ABC News, They are good forensic tools- after something
happens, they'll tell you what happened, said Jim Harper, the director of information
policy and studies at the Cato Institute, but they do not provide protection against
attacks.
Police chief in Nebraska announced that security cameras watching over the city
had not lessened the crime rate and hadn't helped investigators identify their suspects.
According to their statistics, there were 128 assaults within 500 feet of the cameras.
of the American population has smartphones.
90% of Americans are walking around with portable tracking devices all the time
Government claims they don't need a warrant to investigate possible terror
threats
 The ACLU recently told congress of a case where the FBI gathered info on 180
innocent people for as long as 20 years

CARLEY:
Argument #3- Surveillance systems are expensive.
The total US intelligence budget in 2012 was $75 billion
According to Todd Harrison of the Center of Strategic and Budgetary
Assessments after good estimates about 14% of the countrys total intelligence budget or
about $10 billion goes to the NSA
A professor at Johns Hopkins wrote that surveillance operations conducted by the
NSA together cost each taxpayer about $574.

Jocelyn
Concluding Statement- Overall, excessive use of surveillance creates a negative impact on
societal behavior.

Rebuttal:
1) NSA surveillance protects our country against acts of terrorism and other violent
attacks. NSA surveillance isnt going to prevent attacks. For example, at the Boston
Marathon in 2013, the surveillance and police officers did not stop the bombers from
completing their act of terrorism. The surveillance cameras were only helpful after the
attack but they did nothing to prevent it.
2) NSA surveillance provides protection to the American citizens. When it is known
people are under mass surveillance, terrorists will know to use different means of
encryption or offline communication. This make innocents invaded.

Carley and Emma

Questions:
1. According to alternet.org, some 40 billion records are stored in large metadata
compartments every month, the NSA annual budget is a quarter billion dollars used for
corporate partner access. How is this government funded budget cost effective to its
citizens?
2. Every out-of-country call and email from or to a U.S citizen is taken by the NSA
computer system and the agents are authorized to listen to or read all of them. It is also
proven that an NSA agent can tap into to any Americans internet activity-even the
president's. How do you feel knowing the NSA has the power to look at everything you
do on the Internet?

JOCELYN:
Closing statement:
We believe excessive use of surveillance is unconstitutional for national security. The NSA
surveillance program does not provide sustainable protection against foreign attacks, violates the
right to privacy by having access to citizens personal devices and information, and is highly
expensive costing neatly 20 billion dollars a year. In chapter one of 1984 George Orwell states,
The telescreens . receives and transmitted and simultaneously. Any sound Winston made, above
the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained
within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as
heard. Therefore excessive use surveillance systems should not be allowed.