For Fred Barnes, a born-again Christian, the second on the list is authorizing torture. In order to say this without blanching, Fred has to use the euphemism actually pioneered by the Gestapo for torture without physical scars - "enhanced interrogation" - and has to pretend that there is a debate among sane people over whether waterboarding is torture. There is no such debate.
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