Is Obama Hiding Facts?

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Representative Fred Upton (R-MI), and House Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Representative Cliff Stearns (R-FL), earlier this month requested internal White House Communications as part of their investigation into Solyndra's $535 million federal loan guarantee and its financial implosion which followed.

White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler told Upton and Stearns their request for all internal White House communications concerning Solyndra, "implicates long-standing and significant institutional Executive Branch confidentiality interests."

The Republican leaders of the two panels did not specifically say they wanted to include in those communications President Barack Obama's Blackberry messages but Stearns told reporters, "If there is nothing on his Blackberry, that's fine. But if there's something on his Blackberry, I would assume that would include that."

Stearns said he considered anything concerning Solyndra that was contained on the Obama's Blackberry part of the request for all internal communications on the issue.

Alluding to the Blackberry communications Ruemmler writes, "Encroaching upon these important interests is not necessary, however because the agency documents the Committee has requested, which include communications with the White House, should satisfy the Committee's stated objective to 'understand the involvement of the White House in the review of the Solyndra loan guarantee and the Administration's support of this guarantee'"

Ruemmler told Upton and Stearns in her letter they should be content with the plethora of Solyndra-related documents they have already received from federal agencies, including the Department of Energy (DOE), the Office of Management and Budget (OM and the Treasury Department.

Treasury Department and OMB officials have on more than one occasion queried the Energy Department concerning their move earlier this year to restructure Solyndra's loan, a move which left taxpayers responsible for approximately $75 million if Solyndra went down.

Ruemmler in her letter also went after Republicans' charges of political cronyism concerning Solyndra.

"There is nothing in the documents produced by DOE, OMB, Treasury or the White House that indicates the White House intervened in the Solyndra loan guarantee to benefit a campaign contributor."

Is Obama hiding facts?  If not why is he refusing to furnish documents?  America has a right to know how this debacle happened and the taxpayers are left holding the bill for his contributors.

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