Major Joshua Mast

Yeah, well, so actually, they didn't just come up with this. That's what they reported came out of a meeting on December 31st, 2019. They said they met with this senior child protection specialist who's a low-level decision-maker in an Afghan ministry at the time. We worked for two years to get that guy out of a lily pad country. And you know when he got in the country?

Yeah, well, so actually, they didn't just come up with this. That's what they reported came out of a meeting on December 31st, 2019. They said they met with this senior child protection specialist who's a low-level decision-maker in an Afghan ministry at the time. We worked for two years to get that guy out of a lily pad country. And you know when he got in the country?

Yeah, well, so actually, they didn't just come up with this. That's what they reported came out of a meeting on December 31st, 2019. They said they met with this senior child protection specialist who's a low-level decision-maker in an Afghan ministry at the time. We worked for two years to get that guy out of a lily pad country. And you know when he got in the country?

Three days before my board of inquiry. That's when he arrived in America. And that was the only time he felt safe to share the other side of the story. And so in our board of inquiry, he testified that at that meeting, he asked the embassy to do a DNA test because they had nothing, no corroboration. It was just a bare claim. This guy said he was an uncle.

Three days before my board of inquiry. That's when he arrived in America. And that was the only time he felt safe to share the other side of the story. And so in our board of inquiry, he testified that at that meeting, he asked the embassy to do a DNA test because they had nothing, no corroboration. It was just a bare claim. This guy said he was an uncle.

Three days before my board of inquiry. That's when he arrived in America. And that was the only time he felt safe to share the other side of the story. And so in our board of inquiry, he testified that at that meeting, he asked the embassy to do a DNA test because they had nothing, no corroboration. It was just a bare claim. This guy said he was an uncle.

And he's like, we didn't even have a test giro, their national ID card, like their birth certificate. He goes, we didn't have, we had nothing. The only thing we had was DNA. And the embassy declined to do it.

And he's like, we didn't even have a test giro, their national ID card, like their birth certificate. He goes, we didn't have, we had nothing. The only thing we had was DNA. And the embassy declined to do it.

And he's like, we didn't even have a test giro, their national ID card, like their birth certificate. He goes, we didn't have, we had nothing. The only thing we had was DNA. And the embassy declined to do it.

We had committed, like I've got the emails downstairs saying we will DNA test, like DOD will DNA test any claimants, any potential family to confirm a DNA match, because like that's basic safety. And then if there was a match, the plan was to explain her medical needs and offer to send her to the US for medical care. That was the plan.

We had committed, like I've got the emails downstairs saying we will DNA test, like DOD will DNA test any claimants, any potential family to confirm a DNA match, because like that's basic safety. And then if there was a match, the plan was to explain her medical needs and offer to send her to the US for medical care. That was the plan.

We had committed, like I've got the emails downstairs saying we will DNA test, like DOD will DNA test any claimants, any potential family to confirm a DNA match, because like that's basic safety. And then if there was a match, the plan was to explain her medical needs and offer to send her to the US for medical care. That was the plan.

Because we knew she had no immediate family members alive because they were dead. But the embassy reported out of that meeting that DNA testing wasn't part of the Afghan process and they had confirmed family. And in fact, they had no evidence this claimant was related at all. And it turns out he wasn't. In documentary evidence, this guy said he was related to someone he claimed was a father.

Because we knew she had no immediate family members alive because they were dead. But the embassy reported out of that meeting that DNA testing wasn't part of the Afghan process and they had confirmed family. And in fact, they had no evidence this claimant was related at all. And it turns out he wasn't. In documentary evidence, this guy said he was related to someone he claimed was a father.

Because we knew she had no immediate family members alive because they were dead. But the embassy reported out of that meeting that DNA testing wasn't part of the Afghan process and they had confirmed family. And in fact, they had no evidence this claimant was related at all. And it turns out he wasn't. In documentary evidence, this guy said he was related to someone he claimed was a father.

It was an elderly, I say Taliban elder because he's got a big black turban and he looks like a Taliban elder. I've got a picture of him. And when I saw that photo, we found her outside of the government later. But when I saw this guy, I was like, they gave her to the Taliban. It just screams it.

It was an elderly, I say Taliban elder because he's got a big black turban and he looks like a Taliban elder. I've got a picture of him. And when I saw that photo, we found her outside of the government later. But when I saw this guy, I was like, they gave her to the Taliban. It just screams it.

It was an elderly, I say Taliban elder because he's got a big black turban and he looks like a Taliban elder. I've got a picture of him. And when I saw that photo, we found her outside of the government later. But when I saw this guy, I was like, they gave her to the Taliban. It just screams it.

And, you know, we'll get a little bit more into some government misconduct, but this same embassy person in all of our litigation has filed statements saying that, oh, like trying to make it look like they had processes like the right way or that the Red Cross was involved, like...

And, you know, we'll get a little bit more into some government misconduct, but this same embassy person in all of our litigation has filed statements saying that, oh, like trying to make it look like they had processes like the right way or that the Red Cross was involved, like...