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What does Clint Eastwood’s character witness in Absolute Power?

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Clint Eastwood wearing a light suit and olive shirt with tie, standing outdoors at the Cannes Film Festival. — Clint Eastwood American actor and director Clint Eastwood, 2008.

In the 1997 thriller Absolute Power, Clint Eastwood portrays a thief who, while in the middle of a robbery, witnesses Secret Service agents murder a woman after she had been sexually attacked by the President of the United States (Gene Hackman).1