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*** The Get out of Jail Free card was just one part of Clark's escape. {{spoiler|He also used a fake death and a professionally made, taxpayer-funded false identity. Those ARE valid in Maryland.}}
*** {{spoiler|The fake death and false ID work.}} The pardon would have NO legal effect for non-federal crimes.
*** There are multiple legal arguments that could be used to assert federal jurisdiction over Clark's actions. a) He was an employee of the CIA at the time he committed them. b) They were all part of a larger criminal conspiracy involving acts committed in multiple states, including one murder on a federal military reservation (Clark's island) as well as several committed on navigable waterways under Coast Guard jurisdiction. c) The local authorities asked for assistance from federal agencies at several points during their investigation of the case.
** ''Dead or Alive'' takes this to an extreme where before leaving office, Jack Ryan Sr. signs ''100 blank Presidential Pardons'' for use by "[[Cloak and Dagger|The Campus]]".
* In the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series, Kevin Usher, head of Haven's FBI-equivalent, asks for and receives a presidential pardon for any crimes one of his agents commits in running a "black" investigation of possible treason by the Secretary of State {{spoiler|who manipulated diplomatic correspondence to engineer a crisis that would weaken the President as a rival but instead accidentally sent his country back to war against Manticore.}}
* In ''[[The Three Musketeers (novel)|The Three Musketeers]]'', Cardinal Richelieu gives one of these to Milady de Winter: "It is on my orders and for the good of France that the bearer of this letter has done what they have done." When the titular Musketeers kill Milady de Winter, they use that letter against Richelieu himself to keep from being punished for it.
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