When the richard jewell case finally collapsed in a sad, ugly heap last week, FBI Director Louis Freeh announced two investigations into the mess. One probe will explore what role, if any, agents had in leaking Jewell's name after the July 27 pipe bombing. But the second one could boomerang back to Freeh himself. Under extraordinary pressure from agency officials in Washington, Atlanta agents lured Jewell to its local headquarters three days after the explosion under the pretense that they wanted help with a training video. What they really wanted, according to Jewell's lawyers, was to interview him without spooking him into calling his lawyer. Was this a questionable tactic? Perhaps. Was it illegal? No one is sure.
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