It is illegal for the White House to collect data on the people of this country. It is also illegal to conspire to commit this crime. It is also illegal to destroy any records of data collection.
A reporter was trying to get Gibbs to say what he was doing with the records collected on the “spy on your neighbor” scandal who said something to the effect that they weren’t collecting information on people. But if they weren’t collecting it, then they must be destroying it, right?
I’d be stunned if any reporter bothered asking Gibbs about this one.