"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."

Okay. I can see you're not really serious Newt, but you seem to be implying that we should allow small attacks to somehow prevent large attacks. Is that what you're saying?

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."

Oh, so you are saying that you'll trade small attacks to prevent big attacks. Aren't those called false-flag operations normally? Or maybe you are just arguing that we should allow our rights to be violated. Is that what you're really trying to say?

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."

So, I guess we need to rephrase that old canard to read, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety, unless there are nuclear weapons in the world."

And the Republicans actually want people that love freedom and liberty to vote for them. Astonishing.