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Jumping for joy, some patriots are now convinced that those who control the big media have \u201cgone conservative.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n The patriots point out that the traditionally \u201cliberal\u201d media is dumping on the Obama administration and expressing disgust that the IRS was targeting tea party and conservative groups. <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n This indeed may be the first time in history the media has been so concerned about the mistreatment of such groups that have always been subject to special IRS scrutiny.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n And then there\u2019s the scandal enveloping Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department\u2019s seizure of journalists\u2019 phone records.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThings are so bad,\u201d patriots say, \u201ceven the media has come around and realizes how rotten Obama and Holder and the IRS are.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Well, it\u2019s not quite that simple.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n If nine months ago you were carefully reading the Aug. 13, 2012 issue of American Free Press, you wouldn\u2019t be surprised at the media\u2019s disdain for the president, his attorney general and the IRS.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s what AFP reported, foreshadowing the scandals that some say could lead to the impeachment of the president:<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Both supporters and opponents of President Obama are concerned about negative political repercussions likely to arise from an ongoing high-level criminal investigation.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n It is not widely known that the Obama administration\u2019s attorney general, Eric Holder, has upset some powerful people by launching a federal grand jury inquiry into wealthy Americans who have, according to a June 19 report from CNBC, \u201chidden money in Israel, many for generations\u201d in violation of U.S. tax laws.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Two of Israel\u2019s biggest banks\u2014Bank Leumi and Bank Hapoalim\u2014are reportedly central to the inquiry and note that in 2008 the Israeli government\u2019s controlling interest in Leumi was purchased by Cerberus, the Wall Street syndicate run by Stephen Feinberg, described by Israel\u2019s Ha\u2019aretz as \u201ca New York Jew with a golden touch.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Since AFP first focused on that little-noticed grand jury\u2014predicting trouble for Obama and Holder as a consequence of this inquiry\u2014 the IRS-Justice Department investigation actually escalated.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n On Sept. 19, 2012 the internet-based Tax Times reported another Israeli bank, Mizrahi-Tefahot, was now on the list of financial institutions under scrutiny by Holder and the IRS.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Earlier, on June 20, Forbes.com assessed the situation, pointing out that \u201cU.S. citizens with accounts in Israel may feel a little less secure,\u201d since, Forbes noted, \u201cthe Justice Department and IRS announced the indictment of three Israeli-American tax preparers charged with helping Americans hide money in Israeli banks.\u201d Charged were a father and son who had dual citizenship in Israel and the United States, along with an Israeli citizen living in the U.S.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n In fact, according to prominent New York tax attorney Asher Rubinstein: \u201cMany American Jews maintain bank accounts in Israel for various reasons.\u201d But while such accounts are legal, problems arise if those accounts are used to avoid U.S. taxes.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n On April 12, the Justice Department announced a Jewish woman in California, Guity Kashfi, had pleaded guilty on criminal charges in relation to her Israeli accounts, this on the heels of another Justice prosecution of a Jewish man in California, Zvi Sperling, for maintaining a secret Israeli account.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n On May 19, The Jerusalem Post reported \u201ca Tel Aviv-based banker with United Mizrahi Bank pleaded guilty to setting up secret bank accounts in Israel that, prosecutors say, helped charitable contributors to an orthodox Jewish group evade US taxes.\u201d A Jewish rabbi in New York, Moshe E. Zigeman, also plead guilty to his part in the scheme which the Justice Department claimed defrauded the U.S. government out of millions in taxes.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n In the wake of all of this, a vocal congressional voice for Israel, Rep. Sander Levin (D-Mich), issued a sharply-worded letter to the IRS demanding to know if pro-Israel groups had been targeted by the IRS along with the tea party. In fact, according the May 19 issue of the influential Jewish newspaper The Jewish Press: \u201cPro-Israel groups were targeted.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n All of this\u2014at a time when the president seems disinclined to attack Iran or invade Syria (projects of special concern to Israel)\u2014might explain why the big media (largely controlled by families and financial groups that are firm supporters of Israel) has begun savaging the president, his attorney general and the IRS.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n \n