Too Expensive

I mean seriously.  Who would pay ¼ million dollars just to shoot John Bolton?

OK, who apart from about ⅔ of his former cow-orkers would even consider paying ¼ million dollars just to shoot John Bolton?

What's more, paying the money to the  Islamic Republic of Iran, or the their Republican Guard is EXTREMELY difficult due to sanctions.

How could they possibly expect to get any takers for this offer. 

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Wait

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They are paying the would be contract killer, not the other way around?

Damn, the line of applicants will be longer than that for the opening to be Katy Perry's boob adjuster:

The Justice Department charged a member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps on Wednesday with planning to assassinate John R. Bolton, who served as the national security adviser to President Donald J. Trump, as payback for the killing of a senior Iranian official.

The charging document, filed in federal court, read like the synopsis of an international espionage novel — but the scheme, had it been carried out, would have resulted in the murder of a prominent American critic of the government in Tehran, and the plot’s disclosure has further jolted an already shaky relationship between the United States and Iran at a critical moment in negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program.

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The accused plotter, Shahram Poursafi, 45, is not in custody and remains at large, presumably in Iran. Pictures purporting to be Mr. Poursafi show a man with fashionable glasses, wearing Revolutionary Guards fatigues or clad in stylish Western-style clothes.

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It was a ruse, prosecutors said. Mr. Poursafi was working on behalf of his government to recruit a network to murder Mr. Bolton, likely in retaliation for the United States military’s killing in January 2020 of Qassim Suleimani, the top commander of the Revolutionary Guards, a branch of Iran’s military that is a power base for the country’s ruling military and political elites, officials said in the court filing.

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By November, Mr. Poursafi had been introduced to several other Americans on an encrypted messaging platform, and made a stunning offer to one of them, the person who turned out to be the informant: He would pay $250,000 to “eliminate” Mr. Bolton, who had left the White House in late 2019 after a tumultuous year-and-a-half tenure.

One of the things that officials in the United States seem to forget is that in the United States, where guns are plentiful and easy to get, and our society has relatively free travel, is that they are even more exposed than the political leaders they so glibly try to whack.

This has never been good policy.