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Government Executive Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Any chance of a normal security environment for the president-elect evaporated during the Capitol siege. For the first time in modern American history, the possibility of a peaceful transfer of power is in doubt. Extremists swarmed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and at least some of them intended to hunt down and kill elected officials. During their riot, they left bloodstains on the inauguration grandstands. Now, in the final hours of the Trump presidency, security...

The Atlantic Any chance of a normal security environment for the president-elect evaporated during the Capitol siege. Mark Makela / Getty For the first time in modern American history, the possibility of a peaceful transfer of power is in doubt. Extremists swarmed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and at least some of them intended to hunt down and kill elected officials. During their riot, they left bloodstains on the inauguration grandstands. Now, in the final hours of the Trump presidency, security forces have turned Washington, D.C., into a fortified encampment in an attempt to prevent furth...