White Home ‘State of affairs Room’, well-known for Osama raid, will get $50 million improve

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The principle assembly room desk is seen within the newly renovated White Home State of affairs Room, in a White Home handout picture taken within the West Wing of the White Home in Washington. U.S. August 16, 2023. The White Home

The White Home State of affairs Room— the room the place President Barack Obama watched the US SEAL staff raid that killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden in Pakistan’s navy academy city Abbottabad — has been renovated at a value of round $50 million.

The adjustments embrace digging 5 ft under floor to make trendy technological and different adjustments.

The venture took a yr to finish and was completed in August. The convention room the place President Barack Obama and his aides watched the raid that killed Osama bin Laden was dismantled in the course of the renovation and is being saved to be used at Obama’s presidential library.

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and other members of his national security team as they monitored the mission that ended with the death of Osama bin Laden in May 2011.—The White House
President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and different members of his nationwide safety staff as they monitored the mission that ended with the dying of Osama bin Laden in Could 2011.—The White Home 

The State of affairs Room now offers round the clock surveillance from a low-lit room the place representatives from intelligence, all US navy branches and different businesses work 12-hour shifts watching feeds of intelligence, social media updates and video.

A cellphone sales space that President Joe Biden and others had used whereas within the State of affairs Room was additionally eliminated and is being saved for Biden’s future presidential library.

The principle characteristic of the upgraded house is a big convention room with leather-bound seating for 14 and video screens on the partitions.

President Biden used the brand new convention room for the primary time on Tuesday when he acquired an intelligence briefing. He and Vice President Kamala Harris enter by a particular VIP entry door.

The official seal for the president, vice chairman and Nationwide Safety Council is positioned on the wall to designate essentially the most senior official within the room on the time.

The renovation of the State of affairs Room was essential to replace the expertise and make it safer. The brand new house will higher allow the White Home to reply to world occasions, such because the Russia-Ukraine warfare.

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