Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich went on something of a Twitter frenzy today, criticizing the Obama administration’s terrorism policies via a series of angry Tweets that slam “government failure and incompetence,” and call for for an “aggressive practical strategy” of “explicit profiling and explicit discrimination” against suspected terrorists.
Gingrich joined the chorus of right-wingers who have been attacking Obama for his anti-terrorism policies, calling this “a year of weakness in national security,” and Fort Hood and Flight 253 its “first fruits.”
Gingrich also put himself in the camp of those calling for highly controversial profiling tactics, which Gingrich said would target “dangerous people instead of harassing and retsricting [sic] the innocent.” He even goes so far as to call his profiling “strategy” a plan for “explicit discrimination.”
Here’s the tirade as it appeared on Twitter, in all of its glory:
It is outrageous that government failure and incompetence on terrorism will now harm every innocent person trying to fly
It is time to go to profiling of dangerous people instead of harassing and retsricting the innocent
We need a new policy of systematically going after terrorists that involves explicit profiling and explicit discrimination for behavior
My newsletter at newt.org on wednesday will outline aggressive practical strategy of profiling and discrimination against terrorist targets
President Obama does not realise the “systemic failure” he described in the terrorist airliner threat is his administrations policies
Obama policies undermining cia, moving interrogation to fbi, crippling cia morale with prosecution threats, focusing on terrorists rights
A year of weakness in national security is the “systemic failure” and the recent fort hood and detroit airliner attacks are first fruits
We do not need a wtch hunt in intelligence, we need a fundamental change in administration policies on terrorism