Michael Fanone sat on one end of the witness table, called by Democrats to describe how he and fellow police officers defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. On the other side was Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist and podcaster, who used terms like “the superstate” and warned, “We’re in danger of eliminating the private sphere.”
Between them sat three conservative scholars who weighed in on a pair of laws dating back to the 1970s, the Bank Secrecy Act and the Right to Financial Privacy Act.
As those unlikely witnesses testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government at a fiery hearing Thursday, the tensions that have marked its short existence were on display.
