K Street (lobbying/institutional corridor — S1E11)
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
K Street is invoked rhetorically by Bartlet to illustrate how visible movement is to surveillance—the motorcade example ties domestic locations into the international surveillance discussion.
Not physically present in scene; functions as a familiar urban reference point that underscores surveillance transparency.
Referential location used to make a point about visibility and intelligence failures.
Represents the intersection of political movement and public visibility.
K Street is invoked rhetorically by Bartlet as an everyday, observable route whose satellite visibility makes the scale of troop movement unintelligible as secret—used to ridicule the intelligence failure.
Referenced with sardonic levity to make a point about visibility and surveillance.
Illustrative domestic location used to ground the President's argument about surveillance transparency.
A stand-in for routine, visible civic movement used to shame institutional lapse.
Events at This Location
Everything that happens here
President Bartlet bursts into the Situation Room and is handed a nightmare: within the last twenty-five minutes India has launched a massive, premeditated invasion of Pakistan-held Kashmir. Military officers enumerate …
President Bartlet storms into the Situation Room and is briefed that, twenty-five minutes earlier, India launched a massive, unannounced invasion of Pakistan-held Kashmir. Military officers enumerate divisions, naval assets and …