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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Bridget Johnson reported earlier that President Obama has appointed Ron
Klain to become Ebola czar.
Klain’s career is not in medicine, epidemiology, or any field related to
disease control or prevention.
Klain is a laywer, a K Street lobbyist, and a career Democrat party
operative. Klain is not a doctor. He is a Democrat loyalist.
Not only was he involved in Al Gore’s 2000 election recount as Bridget
reported, Klain was involved in the Obama administration’s Solyndra debacle.
In January 2012, ABC News reported that Klain, then Vice President Joe Biden
’s chief of staff, was right in the middle of the administration’s poor
and controversial handling of Solyndra’s bankruptcy.
Senior White House officials knew in late October 2010 that government-
backed Solyndra was planning to lay off nearly 20 percent of its workforce
just prior to the congressional elections the next month, recently released
e-mails show.
E-mails released by the White House last week showed that Heather Zichal
, an energy aide to President Barack Obama, relayed the news about the
Fremont-based solar firm’s planned layoffs to top White House officials,
including Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer and senior adviser Valerie
Jarrett and Vice Presidential Chief of Staff Ron Klain.
Later in the same story…
Obama visited Solyndra in May 2010, as e-mails showed his top advisers,
including Jarrett and Klain, knew about Solyndra’s precarious financial
condition. During his visit, Obama hailed Solyndra, telling factory workers,
“The true engine of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra
.”
In another story, ABC details Klain’s role:
On May 24, 2010 — two days before the president’s visit — California
businessman Steve Westley emailed senior White House adviser Valerie Jarrett
, referencing the audit and saying the visit might “haunt him in the next
18 months if Solyndra hits the wall, files for bankruptcy, etc.”
Jarrett reached out to Ron Klain, then the chief of staff to Vice
President Biden, saying that “we clearly need to make sure that they are
stable and solid.”
Klain contacted Energy Department officials and then wrote back to
Jarrett, saying “Sounds like there are some risk factors here – but that’
s true of any innovative company that POTUS would visit. It looks like it is
OK to me, but if you feel otherwise, let me know.”
“I’m comfortable if you’re comfortable,” Jarrett wrote back.
Responded Klain: “The reality is that if POTUS visited 10 such places
over the next 10 months, probably a few would be belly-up by election day
2012 – but that to me is the reality of saying that we want to help promote
cutting edge, new economy industries.”
By October, Summers, Klain, and director of the Office of Energy and
Climate Policy Carol Browner wrote a six-page memorandum to the President
about the loan guarantee program, detailing the fights between the
Department of Energy and OMB and giving the president four options to deal
with the program, one of which would have terminated it altogether, seeking
congressional approval to move the funds into a Department of Energy grant
program.
The Washington Post reports that Klain “dismissed auditor’s concerns about
Solyndra’s solvency” in 2010, “reasoning that all innovative companies
come with risk.” In Solyndra’s case, the risk was borne by the US taxpayer
in the form of government-backed loans.
Solyndra filed for bankruptcy in August 2011, just over a year after Klain
dismissed concerns about its viability, and failed to warn President Obama
about its financial condition. |
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