The right’s claims about weaponization of the FBI don’t stand up to the historical test Published in The Washington Post The exterior of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the headquarters of the FBI, in August 2015, in Washington. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) House Republicans have empaneled a Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate the widespread belief on the right that the FBI and other agencies are attempting to “purge conservative vie