Ah, sod it! If the senior officers have publicly dug a bloody great hole for themselves then QRs cannot be hidden behind. Everything is already out in the public domain and no way can Jenks's remarks be considered as lowering anyones opinion of the senior officers. Those 2 did it all on their own!
No right-thinking military man could possibly hope to charge Jenks under QRs and hope to succeed. Come to think of it, no idiot could hope to proceed with such an action either.