Does John Bolton really believe this stuff, or did John Yoo have to torture him to get him to say it? As long as Bolton remains under Yoo’s custody, I suppose we’ll never know.
In the meantime, perhaps Yoo can ask one of his constitutional scholar friends at Berkeley to explain how “plain meaning” of the Constitution (ratified in 1787) “requires no less” than that the Senate alter a proposed arms-control treaty to allow offensive use of nuclear weapons (first used in 1945).
Original intent, indeed.