Walter
While I admire your optimism and faith in the ability of gallant English Officers to "do the right thing", I suspect that actions such as you would wish, were a feature of 19th and early 20th Century Empire; and, with the odd exception, finished with Captain Oates at the South Pole in 1912.
Most people these days don't have private means. To be caught 'leaking' is to commit professional and personal Seppuku. And, once the news value has declined, the British tabloids won't be baying for Ministerial blood - at least not on that issue.
I feel sure that the members of that team aboard ZD576 must have known that they were risking their careers etc when taking a different strategic direction in their anti terrorism campaign to what the Westminster politicians wanted but they were doing what they thought was best for the British people.
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Perhaps you could explain.