An anagram for Samantha Powers is Ass Hat Manpower.
Your, “clutch of whores” got me thinking...Carry on.
Yes,
Definition 2, originally I was thinking of a small clutch of birds, like birds of a feather ie
a small group of people or things: a clutch of brightly painted whores
but then again definition 1 fits good too
We are in the clutches of whores.