...it's Biden's fault!

You mean to tell em that there are not thumb drives in a safe somewhere?

Bullshit.

They have clear life cycle requirements, and all agency employees are required to annually train on all aspects of record handling.

on Nixon's tape.

But also another blatant display of the utterly incompetent idiocy our FBI and DOJ are drowning in

Uh huh...

The DOJ has become one big joke.

I used to work for the Feds. We had great IT people who were also Feds in our agency.
The bean counters came in, and outsourced all the IT services. The guys we worked with- suddenly became contractors, or assigned elsewhere. Nobody could get anything done IT wise- it took two days to get a IT human callback.
All those backups? Somebody forgot to add that into the contracting out- turns out two years were not backed up at all. With a change of contractor, all history goes out the window, including backed up data.

Before I retired, there were some local IT staff but the big stuff was all contracted out - mostly starting in the late '90s/early '00s. The institutional knowledge that was shoved aside was sad as most of them ended up being COTRs to oversee the contractors.

Coming from the IT world, I call bullshit also. No way they “lost” 100 TB of data. No way.