“It wouldn’t surprise me if this was a setup.”
Of course it is a setup as it is so easy to take four innocent men, entice them to dress up as telephone repairmen, enter a US Senator’s office and attempt to work on the phone lines.
I’m sure things like this happen everyday.
To show you how easy it is to dupe the public, they already have you convinced there were four men dressed as telephone repairmen.
The FBI’s two chief methods for catching people are:
1) Informants
2) Setups
For instance, they go to some suspected terrorists and say they work for this company and would like to sell them some missiles.
Another possibility is that they were shadowing him, and set him up.
This is Standard Operating Procedure. The question is, whether he did anything or seemed to consent to anything that would enable them to prosecute.