I agree. The Eason Jordan New York Times article ( The News We Kept to Ourselves) is short even for an op ed. If Mr. Jordan wanted to come reasonably clean, he would have written an article ten or twenty times as long, and offered it to the New York Times Magazine, or the Atlantic.
This isn't CNN coming clean. It's CNN knowing that the truth of their complicity was coming out and trying to get a bit in front of it with a partial revelation.