Inside the White House Situation Room
Hillary Clinton and others explore the psychology behind the decisions that shape history
It is one of the defining images of the “war on terror”, taken in the White House situation room on 1 May 2011. As if preserved in aspic, it captures the stony expressions of President Barack Obama and his top national security team as they watch a live feed of Operation Neptune Spear, the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. All the key figures of the administration are crammed around the table, from homeland security adviser John Brennan to vice-president Joe Biden and secretary of defense Robert Gates. In the front row sits US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, with one hand on her notebook and the other covering her face.
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