J6 Committee Members Who Insisted Biden Shouldn’t Hand Out Pardons End Up Accepting Clemency After AllAdam Pack
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January 20, 2025 1:28 PM ET
The nine former members of the January 6 Select Committee appeared to accept preemptive pardons issued by former President Biden during the last hours of his administration Monday despite several members previously urging the former president not to make them immune from prosecution related to their work on the select committee.
Biden granted members of the since-disbanded committee, including former Republican Reps. Liz Cheney of Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, and their staff broad immunity for their work investigating the events of Jan. 6, 2020, claiming the nine former committee members face “ongoing threats and intimidation for faithfully discharging their duties.” The members, on behalf of Cheney and former select committee chair, Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson, released a statement obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday appearing to accept blanket pardons while maintaining that accepting pardons is not an admission of guilt.
“On behalf of the Members of the Select Committee on the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, we express our gratitude to President Biden for recognizing that we and our families have been continuously targeted not only with harassment, lies and threats of criminal violence, but also with specific threats of criminal prosecution and imprisonment by members of the incoming administration, simply for doing our jobs and upholding our oaths of office,” the nine former members of the January 6 Select Committee wrote.”We have been pardoned today not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”
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