White House refuses to provide Solyndra documents
SOLYNDRA INVESTIGATION
Published 4:00 am, Saturday, November 5, 2011
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The White House on Friday strongly rebuffed a subpoena from House Republicans seeking all communications about Solyndra, the failed Fremont already have turned over 85,000 pages of documents on Solyndra Inc. The company filed for bankruptcy and laid off 1,100 workers after receiving $528 million in federal
Ruemmler said those documents show no wrongdoing or political favoritism by the administration. She added that curiosity alone is not a justification to encroach on the executive branch's long-standing confidentiality interests.
House Republicans have used Solyndra to highlight what they see as President.
The White House announced last week it had ordered an independent review of similar loans made by the Energy Department. The review by former Treasury official Herb Allison will assess the status of more than two dozen other renewable-energy loans and loan guarantees made by the Energy Department program that supported Solyndra.