Yeah of course they did. I mean allow a large number of your capital ships be destroyed which almost tips the balance of power completely to enter a war, which was pretty inevitable anyway.
Actually only 2 were lost- Arizona and Oklahoma. (and Utah but it was retired). But it can definitely be explained by arrogance, a degree of incompetence, and the general workings of armed forces, and those things all seem simpler and more reasonable than a conspiracy.