Blumenthal: Did you find any evidence that the FBI tried specifically to entrap any of the individuals who were the focus of their investigation namely Manafort, Flynn, Papadopolous or Page?
Horowitz: Entrapment is a legal term when you are moving forward on a criminal case. We didn’t see that in this case.
Blumenthal: Correct, there is no evidence here of entrapment but the President has claimed that there was entrapment, that his phones were tapped, that Carter Page may have been used as a spy. Did you find any evidence that the FBI put spies in the Trump campaign?
Horowitz: I’m gonna speak to the terminologies used at the Department…, which is confidential human sources…We did not find evidence that the FBI sought to place confidential human sources inside the campaign or plant them inside the campaign.
Sen. Christpher Coons (D-DEL) also asked Horowitz if he found any evidence that Pres. Obama ordered the FBI to tap Trump’s phone.
The DOJ Inspector General responded, “We didn’t find any evidence the FBI had tapped any other phones or anything else other than the FISA that we addressed.” Horowitz was referring to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant perform surveillance on Page.
