The Situation Room In The White House

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The situation room in the white house.

Take the first right down a few stairs. Behind these layers of security is the white house situation room whsr a conference room surrounded on three sides by two small offices multiple workstations computers and communications equipment. To the left is the white house mess. The white house situation room is a 5 525 square foot 513 3 m 2 conference room and intelligence management center in the basement of the west wing of the white house.

It is run by the national security council staff for the use of the president of the united states and his advisors including the national security advisor the deputy for homeland security and the white house chief of staff. Former president clinton with the president and vice president in 2009 white house pete souza. On the right is a locked door. Actor brad pitt visits the watch center in 2009.

So it s not surprising that when the white house released a photograph of the president and his team in the situation room on the saturday afternoon of a raid in which islamic state leader abu. Situation room is a photograph taken by white house photographer pete souza in its namesake the white house situation room at 4 05 pm on may 1 2011. The photograph shows president of the united states barack obama along with his national security team receiving live updates from operation neptune spear which led to the killing of osama bin laden the leader of al qaeda. The situation room in 2009 looking northwest white house pete souza.