Those words are accurate. I keep a PDF of that Awake article on my computer as a reminder. That issue is full of goodies (meaning baddies).
I think its going too far to call them liars because I don't think it was their intent to mislead people.
I also don't believe they need to apologize. We chose to follow the blind - blindly. The consequence is both the blind leaders and the blind followers fall into the pit. The smart ones will say "never again". The dumb ones will keep playing their game.
Here is the sore point. They continue to claim to be directed by holy spirit. They punish severely anyone who questions their authority. At the same time they hide behind the curtain of being "only human" with regard to these serious errors. They lost their right to the title of "Faithful & Discreet Slave" because the facts show that the words they spoke weren't from a divine source and certainly not meat in due season. The words were all from a group of misfits living an institutional life in a dormitory. It appears that the one voice that tied everything together from Russells death onward was a socially awkward bachelor that convinced everyone around him that he was their special oracle - Fred W. Franz.
The real sin is the authoritarian structure they use for their protection, praise, and power.