Actually, I'd expect that it is when things are at their worst that gallows humor tends to fly the most.
It is really a cheap shot to release these emails.
Were they sent from his private email or work email account ... if it was from his government email account, then the emails don't belong to him, they belong to we the tax-payer...
In which case I'm pretty pissed that my tax money goes to pay someone to discuss their wardrobe during a natural disaster.
This is a conservative board. You should be pissed too.
However, if the emails are from his private personal email account and we're sent outside of working time, nobody has any business busting this guys ass about this long after he is out of the organization. We all deserve some privacy or leniency.