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   From: aclu@communist-faggots.com   
      
   Please to be reminding them with as many lawsuits as you feel   
   may be appropriate.   
      
   After a bomb went off during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the   
   Atlanta Journal-Constitution and other media outlets zeroed in   
   on one suspect: security guard Richard Jewell. He was ultimately   
   cleared, but only after the media and the FBI turned him into a   
   national pariah.   
      
   ATLANTA (CNN) -- Attorneys for Richard Jewell, the security   
   guard who discovered the bomb that exploded during the Summer   
   Olympics then became a suspect in the case, filed a libel   
   lawsuit Tuesday against the publisher of the Atlanta Journal-   
   Constitution and Piedmont College, his former employer.   
      
   Jewell's attorneys also announced they had reached a settlement   
   with CNN over his claims that the news network had invaded his   
   privacy and his mother's while covering the aftermath of the   
   bombing.   
      
   The settlement included what a Cable News Network spokesman   
   called a "financial component," but the amount was not disclosed.   
      
   The lawsuit against Cox Enterprises, owner of the Atlanta   
   newspapers, names 10 editors and reporters, including the two   
   who wrote the July 30 front-page article naming Jewell as a   
   suspect in the bombing. The lawsuit was filed in Fulton County   
   Superior Court.   
      
   Also named in the suit is Piedmont College, Jewell's former   
   employer, located in Demorest, Georgia, Piedmont College   
   President Raymond Cleere and college spokesman Scott Rawles.   
      
   Jewell's attorneys contend Cleere called the FBI and spoke to   
   the Atlanta newspapers, providing them with false information on   
   Jewell and his employment there as a security guard.   
      
   Referring to the lawsuit, Jewell attorney Lin Wood said "It's   
   about money, permanent and significant damages. It's also about   
   accountability on the part of the government and the media."   
      
   Wood said a suit may also be filed against the FBI, and possibly   
   some of its agents, depending on the outcome of an investigation   
   by the Justice Department.   
      
   Jewell already had reached an out-of-court settlement with NBC.   
   The Wall Street Journal reported that Jewell received $500,000   
   in that settlement, but there has been no confirmation of the   
   figure.   
      
       
      
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