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Here is the Jewell blurb that I have sometimes been posting for 15 years:

Atlanta Olympics, 1996:

An overweight security guard Richard Jewell finds a bomb in a crowded Atlanta park, an act of terror. He alerts the cops, but the bomb goes off and a desperate Bill Clinton facing a reelection bid ORDERS the FBI to simplify things by making Richard Jewell the perp.

Knowing Richard Jewell revers “real cops” the FBI brings him in for questioning, finally pretending to relent and accept his story of innocence. They then flattered him and lowered his guard by chatting him up in grand style like A Law Enforcement Colleague.

The FBI then claimed to Jewell that they were making a Training Videotape simulation in which a perp under questioning breaks down and confresses to a bombing, “Ah shucks, our actor crapped out, got sick, say Richard, would ya help us FBI guys out..?”

A micrometer away from consenting to help them with their “training video”, Jewell suddenly realizes if he cooperated with “his friends”, they might turn around use the tape against him in the world famous bombing that just transpired.

He calls his ex-roomate, a lawyer, who admonishes Jewell that he’s in very grave danger. He leaves the FBI questioning and AVOIDS LIFE IN PRISON BY A WHISKER.

YOUR FBI IS **FINE** ACTING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL TERROR.

It started at least 20 years ago.

You missed another detail: one witness to who planted the backpack with the bomb clearly described someone other than Jewell. An Indiana Prosecutor, he'd have made an outstanding witness...but he wasn't singing the tune the FBI wanted. Accordingly, criminal charges were prepared for him once he returned to the Hoosier State, he was indicted, attempted *suicide* [by pouring gasoline over himself and igniting it, though he had a handgun] and, of course, convicted and disbarred.

Cooperate with the FBI, citizen, or you'll get the same. And don't embarrass the Bureau.