# The Situation Room

- By: Pete Souza
- Date: 1 May 2011 21:05:04 UTC (1 May 2011 16:05:04 EDT)
- Classification: Photograph
- Credit line: White House Flickr Feed
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Obama_and_Biden_await_updates_on_bin_Laden.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/commons/thumb/a/ac/Obama_and_Biden_await_updates_on_bin_Laden.jpg/1920px-Obama_and_Biden_await_updates_on_bin_Laden.jpg
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U.S. President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on Operation Neptune Spear, a mission against Osama bin Laden, in one of the conference rooms of the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. They are watching live feed from drones operating over the bin Laden complex.

Seated, from left to right, are:

a person with black hair (only part of the head is visible);

Vice President of the United States Joe Biden,

President Obama,

Brigadier General Marshall B. "Brad" Webb, USAF, Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command;

Denis McDonough, Deputy National Security Advisor;

Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State; and

Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense.

Standing, from left to right, are:

Admiral Mike Mullen, USN, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;

Tom Donilon, National Security Advisor;

Bill Daley, Chief of Staff;

Tony Blinken, National Security Advisor to the Vice President;

Audrey Tomason, Director for Counterterrorism;

a person in a beige shirt (only part of the shoulder is visible);

John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and…