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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 Acti
by riscy 3y ago
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?
- torstenvl 3y agoThere's a difference between "WH Orders..." and "WH issues policy on 'Ordering...'". "Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- riscy 3y agoThe 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.
- clipsy 3y agoHas it honestly not occurred to you that the factually inaccurate HN headline is the one being complained about?
- riscy 3y agoThe HN title is “WH Orders Selected Reserve and Certain IRR of the Armed Forces to Active Duty” which I am saying is accurate.
- torstenvl 3y agoIt 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 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/12304
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- riscy 3y agook 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.
- johnea 3y agoDidn't seem like a troll to me. The title is in fact: Ordering the Selected Reserve and Certain Members of the Individual Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces to Active Duty I really don't see how you could be so sure what another person "darn well knows"...