{"id":8542,"date":"2015-05-28T05:50:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2015-05-28T05:50:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T10:50:26","slug":"emergency-powers-give-barack-obama-authority-over-just-about-everything-during-a-major-national-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=8542","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Powers Give Barack Obama Authority Over Just About Everything During A Major National Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/emergency-powers-give-barack-obama-authority-over-everything-in-the-event-of-a-major-national-crisis\" target=\"_blank\">Emergency Powers Give Barack Obama Authority Over Just About Everything During A Major National Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Presidents have always exercised emergency powers, but now thanks to dozens of new laws, regulations, court decisions and executive orders, Barack Obama is the most powerful president in all of U.S. history.\u00a0 Of course the U.S. Constitution does not actually give the president any special powers during a time of national emergency, but over time presidents have decided that they should be able to exercise such powers and the courts have generally agreed with them.\u00a0 During World War II and prior to that, these emergency powers were largely uncodified and were primarily used during times of war.\u00a0 But since World War II things have completely changed, and this has particularly been true since 9\/11.\u00a0 Over the past decade or so, a whole host of extraordinary powers have specifically been given to the office of the president, and all that it takes to exercise them is a major \u201cnational emergency\u201d.\u00a0 So if we do have a full-blown economic collapse, a historic natural disaster, a significant war or a massive pandemic, Barack Obama could use the emergency powers that he has been given to essentially take authority over<strong>everything<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There is not a single document or series of documents that contain all of the emergency powers that Barack Obama could potentially wield during a major national emergency.\u00a0 As I mentioned above, these powers come from literally dozens of laws, regulations, court decisions and executive orders.\u00a0 But in this article I will discuss a few important documents.\u00a0 One of these is a presidential directive that was issued during the second term of George W. Bush.\u00a0 It is entitled NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE\/NSPD \u2013 51\/HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE\/HSPD \u2013 20, and you can take a look at it on the FEMA website\u00a0<a title=\"right here\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fema.gov\/pdf\/about\/org\/ncp\/nspd_51.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">right here<\/a>.\u00a0 This document is primarily concerned with the continuity of our federal government in the event of a catastrophic emergency.\u00a0 So precisely what would constitute a \u201ccatastrophic emergency\u201d?\u00a0 The following is how the document defines that term\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emergency Powers Give Barack Obama Authority Over Just About Everything During A Major National Crisis Presidents have always exercised emergency powers, but now thanks to dozens of new laws, regulations, court decisions and executive orders, Barack Obama is the most powerful president in all of U.S. history.\u00a0 Of course the U.S. Constitution does not actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,1238,2924,5764,1227,5766,838,5765,862],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-10","tag-barak-obama","tag-emergency","tag-emergency-powers","tag-homeland-security","tag-national-crisis","tag-us-constitution","tag-us-president","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8543,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions\/8543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}