White House completes $50 million renovation of Situation Room
WASHINGTON — The White House Situation Room, the nerve center for the president’s most sensitive national security meetings, has a new look and new capabilities after a yearlong renovation.
Despite its name, the Situation Room is not a single room but instead a sprawling 5,500-square-foot complex with numerous meeting spots, all of which were gutted and refurbished at a cost of $50 million. A smaller room, where former President Barack Obama and top officials monitored the raid that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, was preserved in its entirety and sent to the Obama library.
Communications at the White House…