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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) ― Gorton's Inc. recalled about 1,000 cases of frozen fish in 10 states on Friday after confirming that a Pennsylvania customer found pills in the food. Gorton's said it ordered the recall as a precaution while a laboratory works to determine the nature of the pills. Those tests should be complete early next week. "Obviously product alteration is a very serious matter," said Jud Reis, vice president of marketing for the company, based in Gloucester, Mass. "We are conducting a full investigation into the source of the problem." Tracy Rowan of New Freedom called police after she...

Former FBI Director Louis Freeh did not learn of Able Danger until the summer of 2005.  Commenting on the Wall Street Journal op-ed that he published Wednesday November 17, Louis Freeh told me tonight that he and his commanders had no knowledge of the facts of the Special Operations Command's data-mining program, code-named Able Danger, before the remarks by Shaffer and Phillpot in the media and eventually before Senators Specter's Judiciary Committee.More, Louis Freeh, now a private attorney for MBNA, said that since the Able Danger revelation no one at the 9-11 Commission has called him to update the record...

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Here's an interesting comparison. What did the under-oath-before-the-9/11-Commission-former-counterterrorism-czar Richard Clarke think about the possible prevention of September 11 compared to the 60-Minutes-with-Lesley-Stahl-book-promoting-vengeful-former-administration-official Richard Clarke? When testifying before 9/11 Commission on Wednesday, March 24, Richard Clarke admitted to the world that none of his recommendations would have produced the "remotest chance" of preventing the terrorist attacks of September 11. From the transcript of the 9/11 Commission hearing: Former Sen. Slade Gorton (R.-Wash.): Assuming that the recommendations that you made on January 25th of 2001, based on Delenda, based on Blue Sky, including aid to the Northern Alliance, which had been an...

<p>If President Bush had followed every last letter of Richard Clarke's recommendations starting Inauguration Day, it still would not have prevented 9/11. How do we know this? Richard Clarke says so.</p> <p>Mr. Gorton: "Assuming that the recommendations that you made on January 25 of 2001 . . . including aid to the Northern Alliance which had been an agenda item at this point for two and a half years without any action, assuming that there had been more Predator reconnaissance missions, assuming that that had all been adopted, say, on January 26, year 2001, is there the remotest chance that it would have prevented 9/11?"</p>