The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has not fulfilled its job to secure government documents with the loss last week of a hard drive containing records of the Clinton administration, said members of the Information Policy, Census and National Archives Subcommittee this afternoon.

Subcommittee member U.S. Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (R-NC) was “troubled by the pattern of careless handling of sensitive material by the archives.” McHenry informed the committee that the hard drive lost last week contained “one terabyte of data derived from the records of the Clinton presidency… A terabyte of data is approximately equivalent to several million books.”