The Department of Justice has opened a preliminary investigation into the brief attempted coup d'etat at the US Institute of Peace to determine if filing criminal charges is appropriate. The report, first posted by the Daily Caller, says, "the DOJ is examining whether certain USIP actions — such as the removal and destruction of internal and external door locks — created illegal fire hazards. The official also flagged the widespread distribution of internal flyers instructing USIP staff not to cooperate with incoming Trump administration officials as potentially obstructive conduct."

This investigation comes from a short-lived rebellion by the existing leadership of the USIP and some staff against President Trump's order to replace most of the board members. In the end, it took the intervention of the US Attorney for the District of Columbia, the new head of the USIP, and a team of Metropolitan Police Department officers working around ruined locks and barricaded doors to take possession of the building and evict the holdouts; see Showdown at Foggy Bottom: DOGE Uses Police to Evict Barricaded Bureaucrats – RedState.

The evidence that USIP began planning to resist President Trump in early February made it all seem more insurrection-y.

USIP leadership began preparing for a confrontation weeks before the executive order was issued. A Feb. 6 internal document exclusively obtained by the DCNF outlined plans to deny building access to outside officials and reasserted the institute’s discretion over security systems and facilities. Flyers with the names and photos of Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials were posted throughout the building, instructing staff to report their presence and avoid conversation.

Unlike the months and years handed down in sentences to people who merely entered the Capitol, I'd be shocked if any of this results in more than a stern talking to by some Obama or Biden appointee on the DC bench. Nevertheless, the proceedings will probably provide sufficient cause to terminate the whole lot, and that counts for something.