Hogwash. This "apology" is nothing more than the latest step in a carefully choreographed dance that was intended from the start to serve as the Abu Ghraib sequel. This is about as sincere as Dingy Harry Reid's "apology" to Karl Rove immediately after he called President Bush a "loser", and was offered for the very same reason - get the charge out there and then "apologize" so you can evade taking any responsibility for your statements, and characterize any outrage expressed by the people you just smeared as partisan piling on.
Hopefully my prior comment was not construed to be a defence of them. I haven't bought an issue since Milton Friedman stopped writing in "My Turn" every other week.