Inside the White House's Egypt Scramble
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0 Left 0 Centered 0 RightPresident Obama being briefed on the events in Egypt by his national security team in a meeting in the Situation Room of the White House.For three days straight, as the Cairo crisis gathered momentum, they had hardly left their desks. Now, huddled in the big office of their boss—one of the administration policy-makers trying to calibrate the U.S. response to the unfolding drama—the advisers watched Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s first statement. Two television sets were running, one sh...