"Leaked" email by NASA's Mike Griffin

The Aero-News Network reports having an email by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin which was leaked to the press. I don't know the pedigree of it, though it sounds like him, and he evidently issued a public disclaimer about it (also posted at the Aero-News site). I can see Griffin's frustration here. Mandated to do two different things (retire the Shuttle, build Ares) and not having enough money, with the added fun of a 4-5 year gap between losing the Shuttle and launching the first Ares (which would still mean some years before having it ready to lift a human into space). In the meantime, the Russians are playing stupid games in Georgia, and that means we lose their help getting to the station. The Space Station was a bad idea since its current implementation was picked, and now we're stuck with it, a 100 billion dollar albatross. And we can't ...