Obama uses secure White House bunker in fight for... Obamacare?

Yahoo News' Olivier Knox notes:

On Aug. 21, the day of Syria’s alleged chemical weapons attack, President Barack Obama called senior aides together into the White House’s secure, high-tech national security Situation Room to discuss … Obamacare.

The White House released an official photograph of the meeting, which had been scheduled before the apparent massacre, on its Flickr stream. It shows the president at the head of the table in the basement nerve center’s main conference room, apparently addressing officials on various video-conference screens.

That Aug. 21 meeting highlights how the administration has been using a secure facility originally designed to manage the government response to natural disasters or terrorist attacks, or oversee military operations, for purposes unrelated to national security.

It is interesting to compare the president's position in this official White House image of the president during an Affordable Care Act video conference in the Situation Room...

(Image: White House Photo/Pete Souza)

With this famous Situation Room snapshot during the raid that killed Osama bin Laden:

(Image: Getty)