Definitely. Downright foolish, in fact.
Might as well have tapes of Oval Office conversations, no difference really in the ability to self-incriminate, even unintentionally.
Rush bringing up that the Iranians are in violation of the Geneva conventions regarding the Brit sailors and nobody in the media gives a rip. Belmont Club had a good squib about that today:
Western militaries have no human rights, of course.