Gingrich Quips Bush Should Have Allowed Some 'Reminder' Attacks

During an appearance at a Long Island bookstore last month, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich was asked by a member of the audience why the United States has not been hit again since 9/11.

"I honestly don't know," Gingrich replied. "I would have expected another attack. I was very, very worried ... when we had the sniper attacks, because the sniper attacks were psychologically so frightening. ... I was amazed that the bad guys didn't figure out how to send ten or twelve sniper teams."

"This is ... one of the great tragedies of the Bush administration," Gingrich continued. "The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger. And therefore, the better they've done at making sure there isn't an attack, the easier it is to say, 'Well, there never was going to be an attack anyway.' And it's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed an attack to get through just to remind us."

Gingrich then recommended splitting the FBI into a domestic crime unit, which would respect civil liberties, and a "small but very aggressive anti-terrorism agency" with "extraordinary ability to eavesdrop."

"I think that your liberties in a domestic setting are paramount," Gingrich explained. "I would rather risk crime than risk losing my civil liberties. But I would not rather risk a nuclear weapon. ... I think the greatest danger to our liberty is to actually have the country end up in the kind of attack that would lead us to favor a dictatorship for security."

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Newt is slime.

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The premise, the assertion, and its conclusion are just so pathetic, you can't really get a handle on where to start criticizing it, lest you inadvertently lend some credence to some other part of these asinine comments.

Presidential Daily Briefing: bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US--August 6, 2001

some U.S. Senators with anthrax. Old Newty still dumber than a bag of rocks.

If he hadn't spent all of America's energy and resources on trying to impeach Clinton, and instead listened to Clinton's warnings about Bin Laden, we could have united as a country and done something then, before it got out of hand. Gingrich made Bin Laden possible by trying to get Clinton for personal matters because he couldn't beat him politically.

9-11 was as much Gingrich's fault as anyone else's. That's what happens when someone is given responsibility but uses it only for personal gain. He let America down, and he can't face that fact. So he blames others, and pretends he's part of the solution.

...in suspected terrorism cases.