WH had ‘cozy relationship’ with Solyndra backers

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President Obama’s involvement with the bad loan to Solyndra LLC, the now-bankrupt solar energy company, has congressional investigators suggesting that “wealthy campaign donors had [a] direct line to [the] West Wing.”

House Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich., and Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., have announced they they will expand the Solyndra investigation  to explore White House ties to the Energy Department’s loan to Solyndra. They have requested all White House documents pertaining to the Solyndra loan since President Obama’s inauguration.

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