Concerns over the financial status of Solyndra reached higher and sooner in the Obama administration than acknowledged, new documents from a Friday-night dump show — and not just about Solyndra, either. Solyndra closed its doors in August of last year, taking over a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money with it, after having been approved for loan guarantees by the Department of Energy at a sweetheart rate — and having been rescued in December 2010 and January 2011 with more government intervention. Under a threat of subpoenas from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the White House released more e-mails pertaining to their internal activities regarding Solyndra, and they show that the Obama administration and its economic advisers had raised red flags about Solyndra as early as March 2010
