In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a full pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years in a federal prison.Unbeknownst to the public, his pardon was the CIA"s idea. They claim that Backman may have obtained secrets that would compromise American satellite surveillance.Smuggled out of the country in a military cargo plane, Backman is given a new identity and home in Italy. He thinks he"s free. But the CIA will soon leak his whereabouts to countries around the world.