I'm with Flipster on this, but not quite as forgiving as he is.
Considering that these officers were in very senior positions at the time of the SDR and all the changes that followed that Mr Haddon-Cave referred to the other week as well - self preservation of pensions etc seem to have had a much higher priority than speaking out against the changes which led to the situation we find ourselves in now.
I find the words of all three of them, as a consequence extremely hollow. Nothing that they will say will be more than a gnat bite in the 24hour news cycle that this administration exists by. Come Monday morning most of the electorate will be more concerned about who got the most 10s in Strictly or who got through in X Factor.
As Flip says, hopefully todays generation of star rankers will have a bit more guts to speak out whilst they are in positions of being able to do something.
However.
I'm not going to hold my breath.