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When Dan Rather filed suit against CBS 14 months ago ? claiming, among other things, that his former employer had commissioned a politically biased investigation into his work on a ?60 Minutes? segment about President Bush?s National Guard service ? the network predicted the quick and favorable dismissal of the case, which it derided as ?old news.?

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Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.

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