Power corrupts, even at highest levels of government. Even in the White House. That’s the message from the government’s energy loan guarantees, as revealed by a little-reported House Government Reform and Oversight subcommittee hearing last month.

At issue was the approval of loan guarantees for BrightSource Energy, a politically connected corporation whose chairman, John Bryson, became Obama’s secretary of Commerce last October.

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