Judicial Watch Scores Victory in Solyndra FOIA
Lawsuit
Judicial Watch has been aggressively investigating the Obama administration's corrupt deal to send $531 million in federal loans to the green energy boondoggle Solyndra, which is now bankrupt. In fact, we are in court right now fighting the Obama administration for the release of documents. And last Friday we earned a court victory when a federal judge refused to allow the Obama Energy Department to wriggle off the hook. According to Politico: |
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The Department of Energy attempted to advance the
argument that Judicial Watch's lawsuit was premature because JW had not
exhausted all administrative remedies before filing suit. The court was not
persuaded, and the case moves forward. This type of gamesmanship only serves to
delay the release of documents and further exposes the lie of this
administration being the "most transparent in history."
I can certainly see why the Department of Energy continues to obfuscate and stonewall. From what we know right now about this loan, it is flagrantly corrupt. For example, we had previously learned that Obama White House officials rushed the Solyndra loan through the approval process to make a media splash at a press event: "The Obama White House tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion-dollar loan to the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra so Vice President Biden could announce the approval at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company's factory," The Washington Post reported. We also know that Tulsa billionaire and Obama fundraiser George Kaiser is Solyndra's top financial backer. (Kaiser reportedly raised between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.) And we know that Kaiser reportedly discussed the Solyndra deal with White House officials, despite their claims to the contrary. There is something else potentially very damaging to Obama Energy Department officials: A Solyndra investment advisor noted in an email obtained by The Washington Post that the Obama administration was "pushing hard" to delay the company's bankruptcy announcement until after the November 2, 2010, mid-term elections. (I'd include the link to the original article, but it is now broken.) Solyndra apparently complied, announcing the layoffs on November 3. Evidence suggests the company feared getting cut off from future government funding. Sounds like extortion, doesn't it? And while the Energy Department attempts to run and hide from Judicial Watch, apparently, Solyndra executives attending the Democratic National Convention are playing a little hide and seek of their own. Per ABC News:
The Obama campaign rolled out the red carpet this week
for a former top Energy Department official who was at the center of the
ill-fated government loan to Solyndra, a California solar panel firm that wound
up in bankruptcy.
Steven J. Spinner joined other top fundraisers for a VIP tour of the Democratic National Convention floor in Charlotte Monday evening, posing and waving for a photographer while standing behind the podium. When he saw ABC News cameras, however, he ran for the exit. The Solyndra deal was rotten from the beginning, tainted by corruption, political maneuvering, stonewalling, lying and quite possibly extortion. But what else are we to expect when the government gets involved in subsidizing and bailing out corporations? By the way, don't think that these types of bailouts and subsidies will end if Obama is no longer president. Republicans have their own set of companies and favored interests on which to waste your tax money. Obama administration officials may want to run and hide from the rule of law, but we continue in hot pursuit in the courts. |
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