Tag: White House facelift

WASHINGTON: The White House Situation Room - a space of great mystique and even greater secrecy - just got a $50 million facelift. Actually, "room" is a misnomer. It's a 5,500-square-foot, highly secure complex of conference rooms and offices on the ground floor of the West Wing. These are rooms where history happens, where the president meets with national security officials to discuss secret operations and sensitive government matters. Where President Barack Obama and his team watched the raid that took down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in...