Oh, I think everyone competent was fired. They probably believed stuff like "child molesters should be jailed," which would make them a danger to the current administration.

So the thing about autocratic states is that they do not value competence; they value loyalty. Accordingly, they are very poorly run. This is pretty much a universal with the arguable exception of China (which is weird by autocratic states standards in many ways). The people in positions to do this in DOJ will be loyalists, not people who are good at their jobs.

Maybe the grep guy made a conscientious 'oversight'.