Blast from the FBI past:
The FBI KNEW Richard Jewell was a lowly security guard who idolized them:
After initially sweating him, they pretended to drop their suspicions and then warmly buddied up to him over the course of some hours.
AND THEN:
They claimed they were making a training video, and they needed some character that would play the role of a perp who over the course of the training film would break down after some questioning about “a bombing”, and then confess to the hypothetical crime.
“Would ya feel up to that, just to, like, help us out with that silly task, Dicky, ole buddy ole pal....?”
And Richard Jewell was within a whisker of doing just that. Then he remembered his college buddy from over a decade ago had become a lawyer, and Richard called him up:
“GET OUT OF THERE, FAT-A$$, IT’S A TRAP...!”
And his old roommate from college was right —the FBI intended to frame Richard Jewell for the Olympic Park Bombing, under pressure from Bill Clinton, who basically ORDERED an arrest. They were going to have Richard Jewell make what he THOUGHT was a training film, but they would instead use it as EVIDENCE against him for a very real, very famous crime.
The FBI *knew* Richard Jewell was innocent in the Olympic Park Bombing, and they were okay with *framing him up* for it.
THAT is your FBI.