“If the United States really, in the words of President Barack Obama, wishes to keep ‘looking forward’ instead of backward when it comes to the violent legal limbo that is the Bush administration’s legacy, someone might want to ensure New York State Senator Greg Ball (R) gets a copy of that memo. In several separate instances this weekend, Sen. Ball has advocated torturing the teen police are accusing of helping execute the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three and injured more than 140. ‘So, scum bag #2 in custody,’ he wrote on Twitter Friday night. ‘Who wouldn’t use torture on this punk to save more lives?’”
