This Is Obama And His Team Watching Operation Kill Osama

This image shows President Barack Obama and the members of the national security team in the Situation Room of the White House on May 1, as the operation was happening. Hillary Clinton actually looks genuinely horrified.

Of course, even while the Secretary of State’s face – and everyone else’s – is quite telling, we don’t know the exact moment of the operation. Are they reacting to the actual killing or just some other moment of the action? We will never know. The White House is just saying that they are “receiving an update”:

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, along with members of the national security team, receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011. Please note: a classified document seen in this photograph has been obscured.

Doesn’t look like an ordinary update to me.

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    matt

    Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 9:34 AM

    lol, love it, all of them looking horrified, then you got the military guy in the middle

    “pfft, what ever… you guys think this is bad? you should see the rest of the war!”

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    mark

    Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 10:00 AM

    how do we know they aren’t watching a rerun of 2 and a half men?

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    joe

    Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 10:21 AM

    Why is John Lithgow there?

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      gary

      Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 10:52 AM

      haha, thats the first thing I thought.

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      Jake D

      Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 10:55 AM

      Bwahahahaha!

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      Joe Magic

      Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 11:13 AM

      hahaha
      And possibly a tired Hugh Grantin the background. TOASTY

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      Graeme

      Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 11:45 AM

      And how did Peter Capaldi manage to sneak in next to Clinton?

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    Mik

    Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 12:40 PM

    How long before the video they’re watching turns up on wikileaks?

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    Thorno

    Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 2:25 PM

    Anyone else think they should’ve gotten a bigger meeting room?

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    Steve

    Tuesday, May 3, 2011 at 9:09 PM

    This is exactly how I expect it to look, when Obama hears the Cylons start attacking.

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