Afghanistan Media Adviser Document Missing

The Peacock Report (TPR) last year broke the story about USAID's planned deployment of a so-called "cognizant technical officer"  to Afghanistan, where this private contractor purportedly would be tasked with fostering the growth of independent media. An accompanying planning document, which TPR had uploaded to this site via the piece USAID Recruiting Independent Media Consultant for Afghanistan, has mysteriously disappeared.

Adding to this mystery is the fact that the document similarly has been relegated to the Orwellian memory hole of FedBizOpps, the U.S. government contracting-opportunities database. Though FedBizOpps typically places such documents in a searchable database of archived material, a search today of the system produced no such document or related literature. TPR is looking into this matter, and will report any developments as soon as possible.