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Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chu, as well as various Obama Administration spokespeople, have repeatedly denied that politics played any role in the scandal involving Solyndra, a now-bankrupt solar panel manufacturer that received DOE “clean energy” loan guarantees totaling $535 million——$535 million in taxpayers’ money that Secretary Chu has subsequently admitted that likely will never be recovered.And Disordered Liberty has previously pointed out that the continuing investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee strongly suggests that, contrary to the denials by DOE and the Obama Administration, politics did play a role in the debacle. For example, DOE afforded Solyndra special treatment, which may well have been contrary to law, notwithstanding the fact that DOE was aware that the firm was in financial decline. …

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