November 4, 2011







President
Obama's attorney sent a letter to Congressional investigators on
Friday, saying the White House would not cooperate with a subpoena
requesting documents related to its doling out a $535 million loan
guarantee to now bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra.
"I can only conclude that your decision to issue a subpoena,
authorized by a party-line vote, was driven more by partisan politics
than a legitimate effort to conduct a responsible investigation,"
Obama's counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, wrote in a letter to the top
Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce committee.

Committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich, blasted the White House response:

"We
have been reasonable every step of the way in this investigation, and
it is a shame that the Obama Administration and House Democrats continue
to put up partisan roadblocks to hide the truth from taxpayers.
Solyndra was a jobs program gone bad, and we must learn the lessons of
Solyndra as we work to turn our economy around and put folks back to
work. Our judicious and methodical work over the last eight months has
garnered tens of thousands of pages of documents from DOE and OMB that
have proven we are on the right track. Now, we need to know the White
House’s role in the Solyndra debacle in order to learn the full truth
about why taxpayers now find themselves a half billion dollars in the
hole. The White House could have avoided the need for subpoena
authorizations if they had simply chosen to cooperate. That
would have been the route we preferred, and frankly, it would have been
better for the White House to get the information out now, rather than
continue to drag this out. Our request for documents is reasonable - we
are not demanding the President’s blackberry messages as we are
respectful of Executive Privilege. What is the West Wing trying to hide?
We owe it to American taxpayers to find out.”

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