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White House adviser on Solyndra: '*#~@ show' By: Dan Berman October 7, 2011 04:53 PM EDT When Solyndra hit the fan in August, White House energy adviser Heather Zichal may have summed it up best. "*#~@ show," Zichal wrote in an email Aug. 25. Zichal’s email is one of dozens showing Obama administration officials were planning on how to handle a Solyndra bankruptcy days before the solar company went under. On Aug. 17, Dan Utech, an energy special assistant in the White House, wrote in an email that DOE had learned Solyndra was beginning to shut down operations. “It’s unclear...