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This sounds a bit like the Nixon Tapes debacle.
Except in this case there seems to be a heck of a lot more "tapes" missing from a heck of a lot more people, using modern "tape" technology that makes it virtually impossible to accidentally record over them.
I reckon if you grabbed a bunch of non-partisan insurance actuaries to come up with the odds of such a highly related, but distributed, cluster of IT failures you'd be circa the same odds of winning Lotto back to back to back.
How much of the blame for this(and other) Executive branch crisis being brushed over in the news cycle can be attributed to the highly concentrated ownership of mass media in the US?
How would this(and other) events have been covered in the media 10 years ago? 20? 30?
How much of the seeming unwillingness for news media to cover this(and other) crisis effectively relate to the Telecommunications Act of 1996?
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