Far more than that. He commanded a vital capital ship, a ship about whose whereabouts and condition the enemy, the Chi Coms, should know as little about as possible. Indeed, when Italian frogmen severely damaged a group of British capital ships in Alexandria Egypt, in 1940 or 1941, Churchill ordered that they were to continue routine operations as though nothing had happened. That kept the Axis Powers guessing. OTOH this damn, traitorous fool gave the Chi Coms a vital weapons damage report on what their deliberately disseminated Wuhan Virus had done, i.e., cripple a vital US capital ship. He really ought to be prosecuted for giving aid and comfort to the enemy Chi Coms, i.e., treason, and shot by a firing squad on his quarter deck if found guilty, the same punishment the
British meted out to Admiral Byng in the eighteenth century.
Even when the only thing that was genuinely crippled was the mental state of the CO.