News Item: WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is missing as many as 225 days of e-mail dating back to 2003 and there is little if any likelihood a recovery effort will be completed by the time the Bush administration leaves office, according to an internal White House draft document obtained by The Associated Press.

The nine-page outline of the White House's e-mail problems invites companies to bid on a project to recover the missing electronic messages …

(Translated roughly from the Leetspeak by the editor)

Dear Mr. White House,

The hackorz of M3gatok wish to let you know: Noobs, you are pwned. We liberated your emails, so there is no need for you to pay someone else to recover them. You can make us an offer. Alternatively, we will post all the email on the Internet and make money selling ads.

We think we could sell a lot of ads, so we suggest you make a Leet offer. We want to let you know that we’ve seen much better Pr0n collections than this guy, agonzalez@whitehouse.gov, has, so we could even upgrade you there, for a nominal fee.

We have some favorites among your “missing" emails. We especially like the ones that start out as follows:

·         "Scooter, if you would just keep your fucking mouth shut, I promise you …"

·        " Goddammit, Karl, firing those sonzabitches isn’t good enough …"

·         "Tell the Diebold guy that 50,000 votes isn’t going to cut it. Ohio’s still too close …"

Anyway, you get the picture. You can get back to us, anytime, just by sending an email addressed to yourself.

Signed,

Your friends at M3gatok