A friend of mine remarked with surprise that there were a slew of emails recently released relating to the budding (or depending on who you ask - full blown) US Attorneys controversy. 

One place you can access the emails is the Talking Points Memo document archive:  here.  [You can also access them at the Washington Post here [reg. req.].]

The exchange linked above, between one-time Supreme Court Justice hopeful Harriet Miers and just-resigned Kyle Sampson is rich.  On many levels.  Among other things, they use the words "push out" to reference the US Attorneys to be fired (nothing inappropriate, just awkward).  The exchanges also talk about taking a particular route to appoint replacements because of lesser "political cost" to the White House.  Also mentioned is "one follow up item [which Kyle] would want to do over the phone." 

It's also worth noting how similar that Harriet Miers sounds to this one ("The blog of the #1 nominee for Associate Justice to be picked by the #1 smartest President to ever withdraw, in all of history!!"). 

!! [click through to the TPM link to compare one of Miers's emails to her blog]

More:  analysis of particular emails by the Anonymous Liberal here, including "The Email That May Take Down Alberto Gonzales."  Again, the emails are just plain awkward:

[excerpt from the email:] I think we should gum this to death: ask the Senators to give Tim a chance, meet with him, give him some time in office to see how he performs, etc. If they ultimately say "no never" (and the longer we can forestall that the better), then we can tell them we'll look for other candidates, ask them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their candidates, and otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done in "good faith," of course.

[Anonymous Liberal comments:]  Translation: we're going to invoke Section 546 and make Tim Griffin the U.S. Attorney, but we're not going to tell anyone that's what we're doing. In fact, we're going to placate Congress by going through the motions of the normal appointment process while actually engaging in a deliberate, bad faith stalling campaign. Sampson even puts "good faith" in quotes, which is priceless.

Definitely awkward when you are talking about the appointment of United States Attorneys and you are putting quotes around the words good faith.