Inside the Sleek New White House Situation Room

“The White House Situation Room, the ultrasecure facility known to West Wing insiders simply as ‘the whizzer,’ has undergone a $50 million renovation, with sophisticated communications equipment and technology to prevent American adversaries from listening in,” the New York Times reports.

“To walk into the heart of the refurbished Situation Room, which got its nickname from the acronym WHSR, feels a bit like entering the set of a Hollywood thriller. In the windowless basement, one floor down from the Oval Office, the president’s oversize swivel chair faces three huge screens that he can consult while overseeing covert operations around the world.”