Exclusive: The Washington Post obtained newly released photos taken by official White House photographers of key moments inside the White House during the 2011 raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound.
On May 1, the White House canceled all public tours — including some for celebrities who had traveled to D.C. for the correspondents’ dinner. According to then-Deputy Director of the CIA Mike Morell, any meeting about the raid was logged in the White House calendar as a “” to avoid scrutiny. Cameras in the room had been turned off or covered. Obama played nine holes of golf that morning, as he routinely did on Sundays.
At 1:22 p.m., CIA Director Leon Panetta gave the order to commence the operation. Unable to focus on other work, the president and a small group of confidants played spades in the Oval Office dining room.Just after 2 p.m., as helicopters were flying from Afghanistan to Abbottabad, Obama joined his national security team in the Situation Room conference room. In his memoir covering the period, Obama described the atmosphere as “a war room” and “predictably tense.
the anteroom. Webb offered him his seat, but the president told him to “sit down” and pulled up a hardback chair.with the president. White House photographer Pete Souza also was in the room, taking pictures with his “butt up against a printer.” At 4:05 p.m., Souza took the now iconic photo of Obama and his advisers intensely watching the video feed of the raid. A document on the desk remains blurred in the version released by the Obama Library.
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