Indeed, and ends the "apology" by having the interviewer praise his work at the "risk of getting myself in trouble".
Bleh! I just watched it, and that wasn't an apology! The man apologizes to Katie Couric FIRST? Doesn't even mention anything about possibly putting American military lives at risk? The only thing he apologized for, was, as was said earlier, tipping the hand of the antiwar movement -- "setting off this firestorm in the United States". You could hear the undertone -- Jack Nicholson shouting, "You can't HANDLE the truth!"
That wasn't an apology. That was more propaganda, peppered liberally with sub-standard CYA'ing. GRRRRRR...