What Bogden effectively did is dismiss the criticism as just plain nonsense. That won't stop uniformed critics from still trying to use this as some sort of indicator of the aircraft's deficiencies, but, in fact, it is a red herring...."
The pilots quoted weren't picked to fly the F-35 evaluation of the street; their comments weren't included in the report without a lot of thought about the consequences; and the Director of the Operational Test and Evaluation Directorate wouldn't have sent a memo to the Vice JCS without even more thought.
For Bogden then to trash and dismiss the comments in such a fashion sends more alarm bells ringing than almost anything else I can imagine. Someone is panicking and trying to squash the report before it's taken up by someone in the Senate.