Under a House panel’s subpoena investigating the collapse of Solyndra, the White House turned over internal e-mails in compliance, though stopped short of releasing the full e-mail cache. A White House official said that the e-mails released fall within “legitimate areas of oversight.” On the decision to only release a portion of the e-mails, White House Counsel Kathy Ruemmler called the subpoena “overbroad and overreaching” and that it “encroaches upon important and longstanding Executive Branch prerogatives.”
The House panel is probing $535 million in loan guarantees granted to solar energy company Solyndra, now bankrupt. The House panel is examining whether preferential treatment was granted to Solyndra by the Department of Energy. Ruemmler attested, “None of these documents contain evidence of political favoritism or wrongdoing by White House officials.”
