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Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee’s first public hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 campaign this morning, FBI Director James B. Comey said there is “no information that supports President Trump’s claims that his predecessor ordered surveillance of Trump Tower during the election campaign.” 

During the ongoing questioning, however, many specific questions went unanswered whereas, according  to Comey, the investigation is still ongoing. Thus, at this point, it’s still unclear as to what will ultimately be revealed.

At the same time though, an article by Jerome Corsi @infowars.com via Drudge appeared under the title: “NSA Documents Prove Surveillance of Donald Trump & His Family”

Mr. Corsi writes: “Infowars.com have obtained credible information from law enforcement sources regarding individual records of U.S. citizens under National Security Agency (NSA) electronic surveillance in the years 2004 through 2010 – a database that suggests both Donald J. Trump and Alex Jones were under illegal, unauthorized government monitoring during those years.”

Wikipedia describes Jones as a far-right radio show host, filmmaker, writer, and conspiracy theorist.
 
“Michael Zullo, formerly the commander and chief investigator of the Cold Case Posse (CCP), a special investigative group created in 2006 in the office of Joseph M. Arpaio, formerly the sheriff in Maricopa County, an Arizona State Certified Law Enforcement Agency, headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona, provided sections of the database to Infowars.com.

“The electronic surveillance database, provided to Zullo by a whistleblower in 2013, was apparently created by the NSA as part of the NSA’s illegal and unconstitutional Project Dragnet electronic surveillance of U.S. citizens, first revealed by news reports published in 2005, as further documented by the revelations of whistleblower Edward Snowden in 2013.”

There is considerable supporting information in the article. Here’s a link: https://www.infowars.com/nsa-documents-prove-surveillance-on-donald-trump-and-alex-jones/

So, what we have here is the FBI’s Comey once again very carefully testifying while retaining significant amounts of information as either classified or parts of ongoing investigations. Yet, there’s other definitive evidence from another source that the new POTUS may very have been surveilled as claimed. 

All of which means that there’s still quite a long way to go to determine precisely what happened, where, when, how and also, exactly who was involved.

In the meantime, though, while Congressional Democrats insist on hearings to determine how their presidential candidate lost the past election, Trump’s people keep moving straight ahead in fulfilling his campaign promises. All to the delight of those who voted him into office. 

Today, Pam Key writes @breitbart.com, that: “Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” while answering questions about President Donald Trump’s “America First Budget,” Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said the Trump administration was showing “compassion” in terms of where the money comes from by no longer asking coal miners in West Virginia to pay for the National Endowment for the Arts.” 

In a response termed as “BOOM,” she quoted Director Mulvaney as saying: “Could I as a budget director look at a coal miner in West Virginia and say, 'I want you to give money to the federal government so I can give it to the National Endowment for the Arts?'" 

"We finally got to the point in the administration where we couldn’t do that." 

A reader fay9169, commented: “Trump knows how to meet a payroll....so that employees can feed their families---which is why they work.” 

Meaning that once again Trump's administration is delivering to voters as promised.  

And then, further evidence of the gains accruing from employing practical reality to issues rather than ideological theories was found in an article by Rakteem Katakey and Heesu Lee @bloomberg.com, headed: “Oil Drops as U.S. Drilling Growth Threatens to Counter OPEC Cuts.” 

The authors write: “U.S. oil this month dropped below $50 a barrel for the first time this year as the nation’s near-record crude stockpiles and increasing production weighed on the output reductions by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies. While OPEC won’t decide until May whether to prolong the curbs, energy ministers including Russia’s Alexander Novak will meet this weekend in Kuwait to discuss the deal’s progress.” 

“Bjarne Schieldrop, chief commodities analyst at SEB AB in Oslo said: “The solid weekly gain in U.S. oil rigs continues and the market sees that. OPEC can easily shoot itself in the foot if the cuts lift the long-dated WTI price, which will drive U.S. shale yet higher and stronger.”

So, here we have continuing evidence of significant economic gains taking place after only 59 days of Trump's taking office. And just like water dripping on a rock, sooner or later the results will become obvious to all. Regardless of political preferences.  

Which means that as the nation’s economy improves, businesses will expand and prosper, while more and more individuals find better jobs and increased wages, whereas rising economic tides raise all boats.

And the above can be seen, in an article at wnd.com that asks: “Is it the federal government’s hiring freeze on non-essential employees?

“Or is it a miracle? 

“The U.S. debt clock is actually spinning backwards since Donald Trump moved into the White House Jan. 20. 

“On inauguration day, the debt stood at $19.947 trillion. Since then it has reversed by $68 billion, or 0.3 percent, for the first time in at least 10 years. 

“What happened in the same period after Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009? The debt rose $320 billion in the same period – an increase of 3.1 percent. Overall, the debt nearly doubled in Obama’s eight years, by far the largest increase in any administration in history.”

All of which reconfirms that, it will likely take far more than Congressional committees chasing Democrat instigated rumors to recapture the confidence of a nation now recovering from fiscal stagnation that a leftist-leaning leadership caused in the first place. 

That’s it for today folks. 

Adios