Obama national security advisor Stuart Seldowitz, who threatened an Egyptian vendor and his family with torture by taking and sending his picture to the Egyptian intelligence agency, the Mukhābarāt, sitting behind Bill Clinton Secretary of State Madeline Albright, who famously justified the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children as worth the cost of bombing Baghdad and sanctioning Iraq in order to remove Saddam Hussein, when he used to work for the State Department Office of Israel and Palestinian Affairs under Albright in the Bill Clinton administration.