(Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Mark Milley is the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ... It was led by U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Republican Liz Cheney, who ...

In the waning hours of his presidency, Biden issued preemptive pardons to Rep. Bennie Thomspon, former Rep. Liz Cheney, and other members of the Select Committee, the House body that investigated the January 6 riots at the U.

Retired Gen. Mark Milley has expressed his gratitude to President Joe Biden for issuing him a pardon, saying the move alleviates his concerns over potential "retribution" by the incoming Trump administration.

President Joe Biden issued a slew of pardons to pre-emptively protect former Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the Jan. 6 committee and police officers who testified before that panel.

President Biden pre-emptively pardoned Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House Jan. 6 committee, hours before Trump's inauguration.

A former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman ... which includes Congressman Bennie Thompson and Congresswoman Liz Cheney. General Milley said in a statement to CNN on Monday that he was thankful Mr. Biden granted him the pre-emptive pardon, which covers ...

Congressman Bennie G. Thompson and Former Congresswoman ... Milley is a former chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and a vocal critic of Trump, the AP reports. For its part, the January 6 Select ...

Democratic Mississippi Congressmen Bennie Thompson ... are attending Monday's inauguration Thompson responded before the inauguration in a joint statement with Liz Cheney, former congresswoman ...

President Biden noted that the "should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that any individual engaged in any wrongdoing."

The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.” The Democratic president pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci,

The panel’s other Republican, former Rep. Liz Cheney, had been the subject of Trump’s ire since her work on the committee, with Trump successfully backing a primary challenger. During the campaign, Trump called her a “war hawk” and a “stupid person,” and said “let’s see how she feels about it, you know when the guns are trained on her face.”

WASHINGTON • President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson and other members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.