Posted on 09/13/2011 6:11:45 PM PDT by MissesBush
Newly uncovered emails show the White House closely monitored the Energy Department's deliberations over a $535 million government loan to Solyndra, the politically-connected solar energy firm that recently went bankrupt and is now the subject of a criminal investigation.
The company's solar panel factory was heralded as a centerpiece of the president's green energy plan -- billed as a way to jump start a promising new industry. And internal emails uncovered by investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee that were shared exclusively with ABC News show the Obama administration was keenly monitoring the progress of the loan, even as analysts were voicing serious concerns about the risk involved. "This deal is NOT ready for prime time," one White House budget analyst wrote in a March 10, 2009 email, nine days before the administration formally announced the loan.
"If you guys think this is a bad idea, I need to unwind the W[est] W[ing] QUICKLY," wrote Ronald A. Klain, who was chief of staff to Vice President Joe Biden, in another email sent March 7, 2009. The "West Wing" is the portion of the White House complex that holds the offices of the president and his top staffers. Klain declined comment to ABC News.
Beginning in March, ABC News, in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity's iWatch News, was first to report on simmering questions about the role political influence may have played in Solyndra's selection as the Obama administration's first loan guarantee recipient. Federal auditors had flagged the loan, saying some applicants had benefitted from special treatment.
The emails were uncovered by investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which will hold hearings on the Solyndra loan Wednesday.
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Bet me a burger that Van Jones is in this up to his Pinko Commie eyeballs....
“In all fairness Clinton’s big scandal was that he like to screw interns.”
Bought the Kool Aide huh?
Clinton’s big scandal was that he lied under oath in a civil rights case. Lying under oath is a “High Crime” (felony) and cause for both impeachment and removal from office. Cut the Dem spin will ya!
They are a bundler for Obama!
This President has been a President of Pay Back.
“rabid cheerleaders”
Love the image that elicits. Too bad Robert Crumb is retired; I think he’d be the perfect person to draw the perfect picture of a group of “rabid cheerleaders”!
The media knows Obama is DOA for ‘12. So they need to take him out on a scandal (and insert Clinton) before it’s not too late.
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Bingo!
Thanks MissesBush.
Now that is funny!
There’s going to be all kinds of stuff that will be uncovered once we kick Whats-his-face out next year November. This is merely the tip of the iceberg.
I read a WaPo article tonight where there are more emails given, and the administration is basically goading OMB to approve the loan over the objections of that office.
Do we not remember how the Valerie Plame non-scandal went on for years? Reported on breathlessly. Remember that?
Sounds like an inside money laundering job against the American Tax Payers, again! Half a billion added to all the other inside money laundering jobs during the past few years = a lot of stolen American Tax Payer’s dough. Prison sentences are too lenient for these communist thieves!
They sold him and they agreed with everything he did.
Now the results are in, and it stinks
They must now show that he just screwed up, and that their Ideas would have worked if executed by the right guy.
They now watch him agitate his base, knowing that riots are on the menu. His base surrounds them, and the violence has already begun. This is a brush back pitch, and if it hits his face and takes him down, they will be happy.
The Implosion has begun. The super nova is about to collapse into the Black Hole, sucking every Democrat into its gravity.
Agreed.
Citizens...
Move along. There is nothing to see here.
Get to work (if you have a job), shut up and pay your taxes.
Move along.
He's going under the bus with his Cut and Paste BC.
A presidents job is to lead, not to shackle free people with debt.
Porkulus and Obama Care have sewn the infection of discontent and poverty.
The Obama plague will be halted.
“In all fairness Clinton’s big scandal was that he like to screw interns.”
I tell left wing freaks who defend Clinton with that statement that we owe a huge apology and monumental compensation to the family of Al Capone for going on that tax evasion witch hunt when the govt had absolutely no evidence of racketeering and murder.
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