But now, thanks to the News Tracker over at the Senate Democratic Leadership homepage, I find out that Kroll has been issuing independent weekly reports that are still available on its website.

Their latest report, dated yesterday, September 30, says what we all know, that the emperor has no clothes:

Doubts continued to grow this week over whether elections can take place in January as planned against the current backdrop of relentless violence...It is likely that the current U.S. firmness is tied to the November presidential elections, and that its stance could change after the U.S. vote, if George Bush is re-elected. A revised and perhaps more realistic timetable could then be adopted..

You read that last part right. Kroll is telling its clients worldwide that one of its clients, Bush, is misleading the world about the prospects for holding an Iraqi election in January, and is doing it to win the U.S. election in November. Kroll won't keep its business around the world if it doesn't call these shots straight. So they didn't out and out call their client, the President of the U.S., an out-of-touch liar willing to do anything to be re-elected. But they came damn close.