Newt: Holder Thinks Terrorists' Rights More Important Than American Lives

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who has been discussed as a potential 2012 Republican presidential nominee, told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly Monday night that members of the Obama administration place the rights of terrorists before the rights of Americans.

"I believe what you have is a group of people centered in the Justice Department and the Attorney General, whose law firms all gave pro bono support to terrorism," Gingrich said, as CNN reports. "They start every day with a presumption that the rights of terrorists are more important than the lives of Americans."

O'Reilly reportedly responded that the claim was "impossible to believe" and asked why "any rational person" would put the rights of terrorists before those of their own family.

Responded Gingrich: "You interjected the word 'rational.'"

Last week, in response to the Christmas Day bombing attempt, Gingrich complained that "instead of targeting the source of the threats, our politically correct government decides to make life more miserable for the travelling public by imposing hopelessly meaningless rules such as not allowing passengers to leave their seats in the last hour of the flight."

"It is time to know more about would-be terrorists, to profile for terrorists and to actively discriminate based on suspicious terrorist information," he added. Read more here.