"Sir, we've got a situation down here...."

[Clio the Leo]

Inside the Situation Room
Posted by Jason Djang on December 18, 2009 at 06:50 PM EST
There was a time that the Situation Room was known not as Wolf Blitzer's evening newscast, but a nerve-center of information for the President of the United States. Created by the Kennedy Administration in 1961, the "Sit Room" serves as a conference facility, a processing center for secure communications, a hub of intelligence gathering, and a center for emergency operations. It's staffed by men and women from the Department of Homeland Security, the intelligence community, and the military, all of whom are committed to ensuring that the President of the United States is provided all the information and intelligence he needs to do his job.

Have a look at this rarely-viewed space.

(link to video..... WAY cooler than on the West Wing)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2009/12/18/inside-situation-room

[Cha]

1. Thanks, Clio..That was

was interesting.."apolitical"!

[Wheezy]

2. Cool. Didn't know that stuff!

[Mira]

3. Oh the technology, the money, the props.

I'm fascinated, but not astonished. It is all there, including side offices for private arm twisting sessions, and I would love to see Lieberman stuffed into the small phone booth, and locked in for a while.
Now all we need to do is hold some feet to the fire and have the work for the people begin.