Both of you gave thoughtful and insightful responses to my post and I appreciate your comments. I had forgotten that it was Louis Freeh that "leaked" all of that information, including Richard Jewell's name.
Scoutmaster, you are absolutely correct when you say that Richard Jewell died young - too young, IMO. He was hounded by the media and stressed beyond belief at that false accusations directed at him by the media. God rest his soul, he didn't deserve what he got.
I have, since '08, stated that our government is irreparably broken and, reading the responses I have gotten to my post about Richard Jewell and about the SCOTUS refusing to hear the POTUS eligibility ('birther') case only re-enforces that belief. A lot of people allowed the media to alter their opinion of J. Edgar Hoover and his personal life after he died. But, during his life and his direction of the FBI, the government was more ethical, more honest and more prone to enforce or comply with the Constitution. I make that statement with the knowledge that the statement is relative, not an objective observation. What we have today at every level of political office is a collection of liars, thieves and cowards who have found the perfect way to make crime pay without fear of punishment, thus my tagline.
IMO, we are past due for a shakeup of all political offices that forces them out of the backrooms, out of the shadows and into the light . . . . . . typically a place that cockroaches despise.
When a citizen of this country (Jewell, Zimmerman) is denied due process under the Constitution and can be tried, convicted and lynched by an out-of-control media, we are in trouble.