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Garance Franke-Ruta - Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Politics Channel.
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She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City Paper, The New Republic and National Journal magazines. At The Prospect she was awarded the 2007 team Hillman Prize for her work with its blog, "Tapped."

In 2006, she was fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., and in 2007, a summer fellow with The Iowa Independent, based in Des Moines, Iowa.

She has lectured at the Kennedy School, Georgetown University, Williams College and Brandeis University and has made numerous appearances on television and radio.

Born in the South of France, she grew up in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico; New York City, New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has resided in Washington, D.C., since graduating from Harvard in 1997.
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Picture of the Day: Inside the Situation Room the Day bin Laden Died

By Garance Franke-Ruta

May 2 2011, 6:49 PM ET Comment

sitroom.banner.jpg White House photographer Pete Souza has released this instantly iconic photograph of the president and his national security team as they "receive an update on the mission against Osama bin Laden in the Situation Room of the White House, May 1, 2011," the day bin Laden was killed by American forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Osama Bin LadenPictured are:
1. Vice President Biden
2. President Obama
3. Air Force Brigadier General Marshall Webb, Assistant Commanding General, Joint Special Operations Command
4. Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough
5. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
6. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
7. Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
8. National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon
9. Chief of Staff William Daley
10. Antony Blinken, National Security Adviser to Vice President Biden
11. Audrey Tomason, Director for Counterterrorism
12. John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
13. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper


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