Billboards demanding a Watergate-style committee to investigate Benghazi have gone up in House Speaker John Boehner’s (R., Ohio) district, with the organizers contending he’s the man standing in the way of getting answers to the terrorist attack.
“We know this is a bold step, and it may raise some well-coiffed hairs on the back of John Boehner’s neck,” Larry Bailey, Capt. (SEAL), U.S. Navy (Ret.), and cofounder of Special Operations Speaks (SOS), a veterans group running the billboards, said in a press release.
“But the fact is that, he, and he alone, is blocking a full-scale Watergate-style investigation of one of the deadliest scandals in U.S. history—a scandal that reaches into the inner sanctum of the Oval Office,” Bailey said.
Starting on Friday, three billboards up to 80 feet long will run in Boehner’s 8th District of Ohio. The billboards will run for a month, through the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012.
“If four members of Congress were KILLED in Benghazi would we have a Watergate-style select committee today?” the billboards ask. Pictured below the message are the four leaders in the House and Senate, including Boehner, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D., Nev.), and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.).