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Obama Campaign Researcher Wanted to Demote Energy Secretary

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    White House email dump shows concerns over Solyndra and Secretary Chu

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Back on March 14 of this year then White House chief of staff Pete Rouse forwarded some of his colleagues an email from former Obama campaign researcher and current clean energy activist.

Dan Carroll was also part of the Clinton Global Initiative and -- email -- circulated from Carol included suggesting that the mode.

The energy secretary to research and development in a lab writing quote.

Secretary Chu -- a wonderful and brilliant man but he's not perfect for the other critical -- mission.

Deploying existing technologies -- scale and creating jobs someone else to do that.

And lead a new team Rouse has email stated that he wasn't interested in the -- critique instead he wanted his colleagues to consider the rest of Carroll's message which dealt.

With energy policy but also predicted a wave of GOP attacks over -- -- and other inside DOE deals that have gone to Obama donors.

And an underperform the White House now says quote.

This is not an internal White House email not evidence of political influence of contributors on decision making with respect to -- -- loan guarantee.

This is his prediction about political attacks it will come about the loan guarantee program.

-- turned out to be right and Republicans.

Still want more documents issuing their own statement yesterday explaining that quote.

The White House is production includes a limited number of self selected documents along with their own interpretation.

Of what those documents show.

We're hoping this is the beginning of an effort to finally make public these missing pieces of a process that -- -- all holding the bag for over 500 million dollars.

And energy secretary Steven Chu was gonna testify before the subcommittee on oversight and investigations.

-- Thursday.

In Washington Peter Doocy and Fox News.

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