... stabbing a friend in the back.  Par for the course with Linda.

Next thing we know. It's Halliburton getting the  contract to update WH backup system.

That there will be no war with Iran and valid elections still have become very dim.

Maybe Obama has enough for us all of us!

Because to a layman, reuse is reuse.

All we have right now is the Administration's word on this and that's worthless.  Well maybe not totally worthless, but about the only thing I would take away from this is that it's a transparent excuse for why they can't lay their hands on those records.

Now in a real record keeping operation like hospitals have to do, no real data is ever overwritten even though data tapes are indeed reused and overwritten.  Due to government mandates, all required data is not only recorded, but copied and archived off and stored safely off site.  You don't need to be an IT genius to do this kind of thing.  In fact businesses not only keep archived and recent data stored offsite, they may actually lease offsite server capacity in the event of their onsite IT system is rendered inoperable.  They can then fire up an offsite system with the data copies.  They may lose 24-48 hours worth of data and it might take them a couple days to get the system completely up - but it's nothing a well run and competent IT department can't do.

So when the White House starts talking bullshit like this, there are two reasons:  
They are truly, hopelessly incompetent.
or
They deliberately destroyed data.

Pick your favorite.