“Hours after delivering a hawkish foreign policy speech, in which he lambasted critics of post-Sept. 11 domestic surveillance tactics, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) ramped up his rhetoric further against those whom he derided as “civil liberties extremists.”

During a Monday town hall meeting at a Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in this southern New Hampshire town, Christie raised the 9/11 attacks in an extended riff about where he comes down in the ongoing debate between personal liberty and public security.

“All these people are talking about liberty,” he said. “How did that attack steal our liberty? We acted differently. We conducted our lives differently. We were reticent. We were scared.”

Christie said that this collective reaction to 9/11 qualified as “stealing of our liberty, too.””

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur) & Kyle Kulinski (Secular Talk; https://twitter.com/kylekulinski) of the Young Turks break it down.

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