Are you suggesting the White House’s own headline “Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty” is grossly inaccurate too?
Isn’t the SECDEF under direct orders from the president who signed this order?
The official press release and HN’s titles say “Ordering”, not “Authorizing” nor “Issuing Policy”.
I don’t know why you’re reading between the lines of one sentence saying that he is only “authorizing the SECDEF” and ignoring the president himself saying this one sentence prior:
> I hereby determine that it is necessary to augment the active Armed Forces […]
The SECDEF is under orders of the president who commands the military and says it is necessary.
It is not accurate. As a purely factual matter, the White House has done no such thing. And the language you're relying on so heavily is just statutory boilerplate. The "determination" isn't some conspiracy theory veiled directive to SECDEF, it's a checklist item for delegating the authority in the first place. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12304
ok that makes sense, thanks for the link. the “deem it nessecary” phrase is indeed directly lifted boilerplate from that piece of law to make the authorization but it’s not an order in itself.
Isn’t the SECDEF under direct orders from the president who signed this order?