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The Corridors of Power

What happens in the White House when reports of arrive of foreign leaders murdering their own people en masse? "The Corridors of Power" investigates this over the past 40 years from Iraq to Syria and Bosnia to Kosovo, how did US policy leave millions to die and how

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Obama's Cabinet and Libya

Hillary Clinton and Ben Rhodes describe how Barak Obama debates intervention in Libya and decides to intervene militarily to save the residents of Benghazi from slaughter.

U.S. Leaders on Interventions

Visual: Halabja massacre carried out by Saddam Hussein against Kurds in Halabja. Content: US leaders, including Kissinger, Powell, Albright, Lake, Wolfowitz and Berger share their views on US intervention to prevent atrocities

Clinton Tries to Address Ethnic Cleansing

Chief of Staff Leon Panetta describes a young Clinton trying to address ethnic cleansing in the Balkans while Albright presses for more use of military force but faces Powel insisting that "Our Soldiers are not toy Soldiers."