High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Situation Room is a noted photograph captured by White House photographer Pete Souza in a room adjoining the White House Situation Room at 4:06 pm on May 1, 2011. The photograph shows President of the United States, Barack Obama, along with his national security team, receiving live updates of Operation Neptune Spear, which led to the killing of Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda.