Sentences with phrase «president as commander»

... the torture memos were written not to define «torture» with respect to new situations where the statute was unclear; rather they were written to allow the CIA to get around the legal ban on torture, even to the point of arguing that the torture statute would be unconstitutional if applied to persons acting under the direction of the President as commander - in - chief.

Swift said that all members of the U.S. military had sworn an oath to obey officers and the U.S. president as commander in chief to defend the constitution.

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But the punishment of the much - despised soldier has been delayed, thanks to comments by President Donald Trump — comments that, due to his authority as commander - in - chief, could end up letting Bergdahl go free.

(As it turned out, within hours of this discussion, 105 missiles had been rained down on three of Syrian President Bashar al - Assad's chemical weapons facilities, under the orders of the commander in chief.)

• A Defense Department memorandum has said that «no law banning torture or regulating interrogation can bind the president when he is operating in his role as commander in chief.»

Moses is subsequently to be called upon to play the role not only of premier - president - commander, but of prophet - minister - priest as well.

Lincoln is therefore today not only the model of a president committed to faithful execution of the laws and of his constitutional duties, but also the model for those who today embrace a strong view of the president's power that he holds as commander in chief in time of war.

The South fired first, on Fort Sumter, and Lincoln took immediate action under his constitutional powers as president and military commander in chief.

Despite protests from teammates and fellow students to the Oregon State president and campus ROTC commander, Yoshihara was forced to watch as the train filled with his teammates, coaches and friends pulled away.

Following the Ghanaian presidential election, 2012 John Dramani Mahama became supreme commander - in - chief, and he was inaugurated as the 4th President of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and 12th President of Ghana on 7 January 2013 to serve a one term of office of four - year term length as supreme commander - in - chief and president of Ghana until 7 January 2017, [55] and securing Ghana's status as a stable dPresident of the Fourth Republic of Ghana and 12th President of Ghana on 7 January 2013 to serve a one term of office of four - year term length as supreme commander - in - chief and president of Ghana until 7 January 2017, [55] and securing Ghana's status as a stable dPresident of Ghana on 7 January 2013 to serve a one term of office of four - year term length as supreme commander - in - chief and president of Ghana until 7 January 2017, [55] and securing Ghana's status as a stable dpresident of Ghana until 7 January 2017, [55] and securing Ghana's status as a stable democracy.

In early December, as President Donald Trump's approval rating reached a new low of 32 percent, the commander in chief was rating the 2020 Democratic field from behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

As the days dwindle until President Bush joins what Herbert Hoover called the «most exclusive trade union in the world,» the unpopular commander in chief appears decidedly enthusiastic about embracing a lower profile, recently declaring that he's more than ready to forgo the limelight.

«But, as captured in the memo, she insisted on three conditions: a. only a part, not the entire Abacha funds would be spent on the arms; the rest would be invested in developmental projects as originally conceived b. the money was to be treated as borrowed funds which would be paid back as soon as possible c. the NSA's office was to account for the spending to the president who was the commander - in - chief, given the fact that the minister of finance is not part of the security architecture and does not participate in the security council.

Trump is planning to have his first telephone chat as commander in chief with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday.

Taitz had argued in court the deployment was illegal because Obama had no authority to act as commander in chief since he was unconstitutionally serving as president.

President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen has also been acting as an attorney to one of the commander - in - chief's favorite talking heads and staunchest supporters — Fox News host Sean Hannity.

«The president made it very clear that safety and security of the American public was his top priority as commander in chief, but he wanted the science to be the guide.»

It is an extremely narrow - focused view of the President's life, one which occasionally widens to take in his activities as a husband and father and commander - in - chief and even more occasionally the fact of the war he is trying to end.

It's close to the end of the second term of President Barack Obama, the country's first African - American commander in chief, and Southside With You arrives, as if on cue, capturing his first date with the woman who would become his (and our) first lady.

That might have been different had the 2016 U.S. presidential election turned out differently, since the idea seems to have been for Emily Watson, who appears as the Hillary Clinton - coiffed chief of staff to Bruce Greenwood's American president, to play the commander in chief herself.

The President has relieved McChrystal of his duties, despite the disgraced general's previously pivotal role as commander of the Afghan theater of operations.

Castro resigned on Feb. 19, 2008, as president and commander in chief of Cuba.

Updated in brackets Along with commander in chief, President Obama could justify adding «chief resilience officer» as a new title, given how he smartly used Twitter on Wednesday to amplify government warnings about a dangerous heat wave spreading from the heartland to the East Coast in the next few days.

And the justification is essentially the same one Lincoln used to free the slaves — the president's powers as commander - in - chief of the armed forces.

Such a commission may be appointed by any field commander, or by any commander competent to appoint a general court martial, as was General Styer, who had been vested with that power by order of the President.

In times of war, Minnesota National Guard Soldiers and Airmen can be called into federal active service with the president of the United States as commander in chief.