I mean, they didn't fail. They were tasked with deciding if the guy was capable of doing the job. They decided that he wasn't and fired him.

Subsequent to that, they were removed from their positions. Failure is a subjective assertion that implies that they had some idea that they were going to do something different than what they actually did, but that doesn't seem supported by any of the actual facts.

Seems to me they successfully communicated that their judgment and decision was that he should be fired, and are no longer responsible for the outcome, as they've been removed from their fiduciary duty of making judgments like that.