After every major action, there is a flurry of fingerpointing and demands that individual people get sacked. Also, a lot of people will quit out of disappointment in the real thing, or in disgust at the fanny-covering barrages of memos and press announcements.
He MAY have been at fault, but presumably he had a staff who would take care of station by station ops. I'm betting they had NO contingency plan for this and maybe he tends to reach past his staff and run things once in a while?...in which case staff will leave the boss to flounder as a sort of "fragging".