Essays on Afsa

1997 Adoption and Safe Families Act: Discussion

The safety and well-being of the child must be of paramount importance in the course of judicial hearings for establishing neglect or abuse. Federal, as well as state law regarding the safety and health of the child, must take precedence over the responsibility of the state in reuniting the family with the child. In addition, Federal statutes mandate the states to enact certain policy actions if the child is taken from the family and placed under the guardianship of the state (Office of Legislative Research, 1999, p. 1).

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National Security Agency

Since the 9/11 attacks in the United States’ renowned areas such as the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the public and the media turned to the country’s intelligence community to understand how such attack befall on the country and how they could stop future attacks. The Bush Administration had immediately called for the reorganization of the intelligence community to improve its fight towards terrorism. One of the departments of the IC that came into focus is the National Security Agency, the country’s code-breaking and intelligence agency, which would have been able to notify the government for ...

National Security Agency

The United States is known for many achievements and titles that sustains its moniker as the “World’s Only Superpower”, sustaining not just political and economic influence, but also its defense capabilities within its territories and to its allies. In terms of its national security and counterintelligence, the United States lauds itself for possessing an intelligence community that can identify and decode any threat and mobilize troops to neutralize the threat. With the numerous agencies comprising the US intelligence community, the National Security Agency sustains the country’s largest code-breaking network to ensure that the US government would be ...