The Dog Days of Summer used to be the silly season in Washington, but with the election of Donald Trump, Washington is downright crazy all year long.  Instead of  Congress spending its time concentrating on little issues like the $20 trillion debt, illegal immigration, Islamic terrorism, the tax code, or the impending failure of Obamacare, our lawmakers spent last Monday on an issue of vital importance, trying to disprove President Trump’s Tweets suggesting that the Obama Administration wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower.  Trump made his Tweets on March 4, setting off a firestorm of outrage in the Media.  How dare he suggest such a thing?  By March 6, Bloomberg (so-called) News “reasoned” that if Obama approved wiretaps of Trump that was an impeachable act, so if he didn’t do it, Trump should be impeached for suggesting it.  Huh?  The Media howled, “Where’s your evidence Trump?”  Let’s get something straight.   Where’s your evidence would have been a legitimate question had Donald Trump been the source of the wiretapping allegations.  He was not.  In November, the website Heatstreet reported Obama Justice Department wiretapping of Trump operatives.  The New York Times published stories about wiretaps of Trump employees in January and February.  General Flynn was intercepted on a wiretap in December.  Presumably the Media outlets that reported and repeated stories about investigations of Trump & Co. must have had some evidence, right?  Wrong!  Hey Trump, you F****d up, you trusted us!  Turns out they really are fake news, just like Trump said, because the Media immediately announced there was no evidence.  Then, on Monday, Congress had FBI Director Comey and NSA Director Rogers testify to refute Trump. We learned that the FBI opened an investigation into a possible Trump connection to Russia and Russian attempts to influence the election in late July.  Congress was not informed until now, due to “sensitivities,” about the investigation involving Trump’s contacts with Russia.  No evidence of Trump collusion with Russia was uncovered, but Comey said by December, the intelligence community became confident that Russia engaged in a “multifaceted campaign” that involved “active measures” to “hurt” Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and “help” Trump.  “It was a fairly easy judgment for the community,” Comey said. “Putin hated Secretary Clinton so much that he had a clear preference to the person running against her.”  At least we can’t fault Putin’s taste.  Comey told us, “They (Russia) wanted to mess with our election and hurt our country in general, that’s always the baseline.”  Quite a revelation, huh?  Of course, if you read Frank On Friday you already knew that.  On February 24, I wrote, “Vladimir Putin is a puppeteer, but he’s not pulling Trump’s strings.  It’s much worse.  Putin understood that there was a chance that an outsider could be elected President.  Putin knew that this was an opportunity to undermine and destabilize the U.S. government.”  “All he had to do was have the Deputy Foreign Minister allege that there were contacts with Trump.  Now he can sit back and watch while our government tears itself apart.”  Now how come a fat little guy in New Jersey, sitting in his living room, gets it, and the Media does not?  The answer is, they get it, but the truth doesn’t help them to destroy Trump.  The big story from Monday’s testimony, at least as far as the Media was concerned, was Comey’s statement that there was “no evidence” to support Trump’s claims that he was wiretapped by President Obama.  Aha!  That proves Trump was wrong, crazy even.  Does it?  To paraphrase a former President, I guess it depends on what your definition of “wiretapped by President Obama” is.  Despite the facts that Obama opened an office in Washington, bought a big house there, into which he has moved his Chief of Staff, Valerie Jarrett, runs a protest group (Organizing For America) with a $40 million war chest, and he has announced his intention to resist Trump’s policies, nobody thinks Obama actually sat there wearing headphones, listening to Trump conversations, and Trump never claimed that he did.  But by the same token, no reasonable and honest person actually could believe that Obama’s Justice Department was investigating Trump and Obama didn’t approve the action.  Yeah, but Trump said he was tapped at Trump Tower.  That never happened!  That’s crazy right?  Is it?  Fresh off of Monday’s “no evidence of Obama wiretapping” story, on Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes revealed that  members of the intelligence community “incidentally collected” communications from the Trump transition team during legal surveillance operations of foreign targets.  Now “surveillance that collects communications” my children, means they either tapped the phones, or even more shockingly, “bugged” conversations.  Nunes said this surveillance, which occurred in November, December and January, produced “dozens” of reports which unmasked several individuals’ identities and were “widely disseminated.”  As far as Nunes could tell, none of the reports mentioned Russia or Russians and he was unsure whether the surveillance occurred at Trump Tower.  So, the Trump transition team was the subject of government surveillance.  Care to guess where the transition team was located in November, December and January?  I remember a steady procession of politicians, hats in hands, mouths full of crow, riding up and down a long escalator in a New York building where the transition was being done.  That’s right, it was Trump Tower, wasn’t it?  So maybe Trump was right after all.  His people were intercepted, and their identities are known to “the intelligence community” (that’s what unmasked means).  But who were those unmasked men, and who unmasked them?  As I told you on March 10, in his last days as President, Il Duce Obama revoked a 30 year old policy that prevented the dissemination of raw intelligence data, by permitting it to be disseminated to 16 different agencies, thereby assuring that it would be leaked.  “Raw intelligence data” means whatever is said or heard, and includes “chatter” and “rumor,” which does not constitute “evidence.”  Obama made sure it would be leaked, and the Media dutifully reported it.  But if you accept the Media reports at face value, then “where’s your evidence?”  The howling Media is right this time.  Trump should not have believed what they reported.  Anybody who believes the fake news must be nuts.  Hi Ho Silver, away!