Because what the question is to the non-political IT professional is, "hey, you mean to tell me your systems weren't backed up?" and the answer "no," means "no, I'm a complete professional incompetent who ought to be refitting PlayStations for a Chinese sweat shop." For a political wonk, "I'm a complete moron" is professionally acceptable - look at Congress, for example - for an IT geek, it isn't.
I have no clue what you just said....
what passes for it geek these days are script kiddies and liouiounioux tardz that think they can run the world
these were not backup media - it was disaster recovery media
Bingo!
LOL on the difference in standards for professional Congress critters and IT geeks.