House Republicans are investigating a post on Reddit asking for advice on how to scrub a 'VERY VIP' client's email address from an archive based on evidence that suggests they were written by the computer technician who deleted Hillary Clinton's emails.

The posts were made by user 'stonetear,' an alias known to be used online by IT expert Paul Combetta, the Platte River Networks specialist who destroyed Clinton's emails after she was ordered by Congress to preserve the records.

He was received an immunity deal from the Justice Department for his testimony in the Clinton case.

House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee chairman Mark Meadows told The Hill, 'The Reddit post issue and its connection to Paul Combetta is currently being reviewed by OGR staff and evaluations are being made as to the authenticity of the post.'

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House Republicans are investigating a post on Reddit asking for advice on how to scrub a 'VERY VIP' client's email address from an archive based on evidence that suggests they were written by the computer technician who deleted Hillary Clinton's emails, Paul Combetta. He's pictured above at a House hearing last week

The Reddit post referenced by Meadows was deleted from the platform. It has been archived in images, however, The Hill reports.

It said, 'I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP’s (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email… Basically, they don’t want the VIP’s email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out.'

It asked, 'Does anyone have experience with something like this, and/or suggestions on how this might be accomplished?'

The message was posted on July 23, 2014. A day prior the State Department had agreed to turn over to the Oversight Committee records related to the Benghazi terrorist attack.

'If it is determined that the request to change email addresses was made by someone so closely aligned with the Secretary's IT operation as Mr. Combetta, then it will certainly prompt additional inquiry,' Meadows told The Hill in an interview. 'The date of the Reddit post in relationship to the establishment of the Select Committee on Benghazi is also troubling.'

Combetta and 'stonetear' are thought to be one in the same. An account on Etsy with the username stonetear is linked to a Paul Combetta. The web address combetta.com, now inactive, is tied to stonetear@gmail.com, The Hill points out.

A Nexis file on Combetta lists the stonetear address as a possible e-mail as well.

And a Facebook page discovered by DailyMail.com earlier this month that has since been altered also affirms Combetta's identity.

A photo of Combetta posted to the social networking platform by a man listed as a relative in Nexis on August of 2014 was tagged with the name 'Paul Stonetear' during a DailyMail.com search on Sept. 9.

Combetta appears to have altered his name on Facebook to 'Paul Hamilton' in the 11 days in between.

BEFORE: Reddit post was made by user 'stonetear.' A Facebook page discovered by DailyMail.com earlier this month that has since been altered also affirms Combetta's identity. He's seen above in a photo on that Facebook page, tagged as 'Paul Stonetear'

AFTER: Combetta appears to have altered his name on Facebook to 'Paul Hamilton' in the 11 days in between

The picture, posted to user Carl Kloster's page, is however, of Combetta, who appeared four days later before the House's Oversight committee in compliance with a subpoena.

At the hearing Combetta asserted his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self incrimination and was excused by legislators.

He is the second, known IT specialist who handled Clinton's emails to have been granted legal protection by the Justice Department in exchange for his testimony.

The former campaign staffer and State Department employee who set up Clinton's server, Bryan Pagliano, was the first.

House Republicans have already asked the Obama administration to launch an obstruction of justice investigation into Combetta. But the legal agreement protecting the computer guru means that outcome is tricky. Investigators would have to prove Combetta violated the terms of the immunity deal.

Combetta was not named in the FBI report detailing the incident with Clinton's emails, described as an 'oh s***' moment in the redacted text.

He was outed in a New York Times article after the fact as the employee who made the error.

After the news outlet reported in 2012 that Clinton had a secret server in the basement of her New York home that contained work-related emails from the time she served as secretary of state, the House's Benghazi committee subpoenaed the pertinent messages.

On the left is a picture of 'Paul Stonetear' on Facebook in 2014. On the right is Paul Combetta last week at a hearing in Washington D.C. on Clinton's emails. The photos are evidence that 'Stonetear' and Combetta are one in the same

Witnesses, from left, Paul Combetta, Platte River Networks' Bill Thornton and Justin Cooper are sworn in on Capitol Hill Tuesday. Bryan Pagliano, who ran Hillary Clinton's server, didn't appear. Combetta asserted his Fifth Amendment right not to testify

Around the same time, a redacted individual realized that he had not, as he'd been instructed several months before, deleted an archive of Clinton's emails, an FBI summary of the case said.

The individual 'indicated he believed he had an "oh s***' moment and sometime between March 25-31, 2015 deleted the Clinton archive mailbox from the PRN server and used BleachBit to delete the exported .PST files he had created on the server system containing Clinton’s e-mails.'

PRN stands for Platte River Networks, Combetta's employer.

Combetta first told the Justice Department that he didn't remember deleting the emails but changed his story several months later.

He also said, 'he was aware of the existence of the preservation request and the fact that it meant he should not disturb Clinton’s email data.'

Benghazi committee chairman Trey Gowdy, a former prosecutor, told Fox News it was 'stunning' that DOJ would have given Combetta a get-out-of-jail free card.

'This is prosecutor 101. You don't give immunity to the person who actually robbed the bank,' he exclaimed after the immunity deal was revealed.

Gowdy said the FBI 'blew it.'

'They gave immunity to the very person you would most want to prosecute, which is the person who destroyed official public records after there was a subpoena and after there was a prosecution order,' the Republican congressman stated.

The Republican-run House Oversight and Government has launched its own investigation into the 'circumstances leading to the failure to preserve federal records during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State.'

It compelled Pagliano, Combetta, longtime Clinton hand Justin Cooper and Platte River's Bill Thornton to testify last week.

Combetta and Thornton, showed, but exercised their constitutional right not to testify. Pagliano skipped it altogether, angering lawmakers. Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said he was 'thumbing his nose at Congress.'

Cooper monitored the server and set up Clinton's email on her cellular devices. He told Meadows during the hearing that he had no knowledge about the deletion of Clinton's emails.

Clinton's presidential campaign has said additional investigations into the way the records were preserved are unnecessary. The matter was 'thoroughly examined by the FBI prior to its decision to close out this case.'