Takeaways on AP report about how US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl

An AP report reveals how a U.S. Marine and his wife adopted an Afghan war orphan against official U.S. policy. Marine Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, secured an adoption in a Virginia court despite the U.S. government's efforts to reunite the child with her Afghan family after she was orphaned in 2019. The once-secret court documents show a fractured U.S. bureaucracy, with federal officials and the court blaming each other for the international incident. The adoption allowed the Masts to take the child from the Afghan family as they fled their homeland, raising concerns about child trafficking and threatening America's international standing. The U.S. State Department under the Trump administration had initially worked with the Afghan government to locate the girl's family.

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