Outgoing US President Joe Biden has issued pardons to Dr Anthony Fauci, retired General Mark Milley, and members of the House Committee that investigated the Capitol Hill attacks.

Outgoing US President Joe Biden on Monday pardoned Dr Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and members of a House committee that investigated the Capitol Hill riot on 6 January 2021 in an unprecedented move aimed at protecting those impacted from potential revenge by the Trump administration.

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.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), told The Hill on Monday that he intends to accept the pardon preemptively offered to him by

President Biden on Monday morning, just hours before President-elect Trump’s inauguration, announced pardons for Anthony Fauci, Gen. Mark Milley, and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and

on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 20, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Pool, File) FILE – Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases ...

FLETCHER, N.C. — President Donald Trump has ended the federal security detail for Dr. Anthony Fauci ... and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington.

and Pensions Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Nov. 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) FILE - Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious ...

The US president used the final hours of his presidency to issue preemptive pardons to those he described as potentially being a target of "unjustified (and) politically motivated prosecutions".View o

Before Trump spoke in Las Vegas, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was confirmed as the next secretary of Homeland Security

The move came after Trump warned of an enemies list of those who crossed him politically or sought to hold him accountable for Jan. 6, 2021.