When Paul Combetta aka “stonetear” woke up yesterday morning, it’s doubtful he would have suspected a two year old archive written under his Reddit pseudonym would have been on his mind.   Full Day One Discovery Thread HERE
However, someone must have alerted him asap because within hours of our story hitting the web (04:45am EDT) Combetta began furiously deleting his Reddit postings, user information, and various media forum histories.
In addition to secondarily confirming his real-life identity, in legal-speak such behavior is called: “consciousness of guilt“.

Day #1 – Was essentially the outline of Hillary Clinton’s Email custodian Paul Combetta, who worked for Platte River Network, and his engagement on a July 24th 2014 Reddit forum where he was seeking advice/recommendations for how to delete email addresses from email files prior to export.  (see day #1 for  all citations)
The confirmation of actual identity to the pseudonym used is now 100%.  The scope of the evidence affirming that Combetta is “stonetear” is vast and extensive. There simply is no way “stonetear” is not Paul Combetta.   Period.  So we move on to Day #2:
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*Update* Several hours after posting this research, Paul Combetta began scrubbing all of his social media and comment sections.  However, everything is archived.  U.S News and World Report has picked up the story.  – SEE HERE– Sources also indicate DC congressional leadership and staffers are now fully aware.  This story is about to break wide open, thanks to the excellent work of the New Media, citizen journalists !…..
A rather stunning discovery has been made by a researcher named Katica who uncovered a July 24th 2014 Reddit thread started by Platte River Network executive Paul Combetta who -at the time- was requesting technical advice on how to strip a “VIP (VERY VIP)” email address from archives stored on a server he has “full access to“.

BACKSTORY – Last week Paul Combetta plead the fifth and refused to answer questions before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  According to Committee chairman Jason Chaffetz, the following email exchange occurred between Combetta and another undisclosed Platte River Network staff member back on 8/19/15:

“Wondering how we can sneak an email in now, after the fact, asking them [the Clinton camp] when they told us to cut the backups and have them confirm it for our records.  Starting to think this whole thing is really covering up some shady shit.  I just think if we have it in writing that they told us to cut the backups then we can go public with our statement saying we’ve had the backup since day one when we were told to trim to 30 days would make us look a whole lot better.”

Platte River Network used BleachBit to remove all traces of Secretary Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails. As mentioned Paul Combetta refused to answer any questions from the committee.
However, today a rather remarkable discovery adds additional intrique to this historical series of events.   A researcher named Katica, discovered the Reddit identity of Paul Combetta as “stonetear“.
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