While we're waiting for MUELLER, amateur OppoResearchers are scouring archives on DRUMPF

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/20/trump-bombshells-robert-mueller-sleuthing-241811

From San Francisco to Belfast, self-assigned Bob Muellers work long hours for no pay to unearth buried secrets.

By DARREN SAMUELSOHN

.... ...Countless amateur sleuths are on the case, from a short-order cook in Belfast whose research was recently cited by the Daily Beast to a Florida art teacher who tells POLITICO he is applying his pattern-recognition skills to Trump’s sprawling business empire. Undaunted by a lack of subpoena power or search warrants, and the government’s vast legal and technical expertise, countless people like these are poring through Trump’s personal and business records, as well as overlooked 2016 campaign clues. They share their findings through email, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and even tips to reporters and the FBI. Most labor in obscurity, but all are motivated by the lottery-like odds of a discovery that has eluded journalists and prosecutors but which just might bring down a president. ....

At the FBI, the notion that the public could strike pay dirt is the reason it maintains a website where incoming tips are taken seriously, law enforcement sources say. An outspoken House Intelligence Committee member, Rep. Eric Swalwell, is also eager to hear what amateurs are finding. “What else should we be pursuing?” the California Democrat asks on his website, under a banner that reads “Submit Trump-Russia Connections.” ....

In her job as managing editor at the myth-busting website Snopes, 40-year old Brooke Binkowski spends her days trying to separate facts from fiction. From her San Diego home office, Binkowski has collected 18 months of data on what she calls an onslaught of online “fake news” stories “in line with the Kremlin playbook” for sowing misinformation in the U.S. and Europe. ....

One of them goes by the Reddit handle of PostimusMaximus, and declined to give his real name for fear of cyber attacks. Initially focused on trying to vet the accuracy of the controversial dossier on Trump written by a former British intelligence operative, his Reddit page has grown into an extensively detailed timeline of the Trump-Russia saga that reflected countless hours of work. (Sample entry: “Starting in 2014, Trump oddly Tweeted Nine Times to Deleted Russian Twitter Accounts About Running for President.”) It now covers more than 40,000 words under 56 chapter headings. (“There is quite a bit still missing,” he apologizes.) ....

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