Saturday, February 18, 2012

It Wouldn’t Be Saturday Morning Without Another Friday Night Solyndra Document Dump to Sift Through

The Energy and Commerce Committee has given the White House a deadline of next Tuesday to release documents related to Solyndra in eleven specified categories. Failure to do so could result in a contempt of Congress vote. According to the ECC, yesterday’s 463-page Solyndra doc dump included material from only one of the eleven categories. - Michelle Malkin

The February 21st deadline will come and go, as other deadlines have. Part of the ECC’s mistake was requesting the material with a Tuesday deadline when the Document Dump Czar only works Friday afternoons. Levels of transparency this historic can’t be rushed and must occur just before the weekend in order to be fully appreciated.

Friday Night Doc Dump: Did WH economic advisers raise red flags on Solyndra as early as March 2010? - HotAir

(Larry) Summers at the time was Director of the National Economic Council, nominally in charge of the administration’s economic policy. He was not the only economic adviser to raise questions about Solyndra and the administration’s involvement, either. Jared Bernstein, who helped write the case for the stimulus bill that produced the funding for Solyndra, shared his concerns with another Joe Biden economic adviser in May 2010 over the level of private investment that the green-tech stimulus loan guarantees had produced — and then suggested that no one mention it...