US government worked against itself to let Marine adopt Afghan girl, documents obtained by AP show

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official policy to unite the child with her family


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