Obama's Lucky Friends. Where did green-energy cash go? Straight to campaign donors. ...In the government-backed-loan program, for example, $16.4 billion of the $20.5 billion in loans granted as of Sept. 15 went to companies either run by or primarily owned by Obama financial backersâindividuals who were bundlers, members of Obamaâs National Finance Committee, or large donors to the Democratic Partyâ¦. One might think that the Department of Energyâs Loan Program Office, which has doled out billions in taxpayer-guaranteed loans, would be directed by a dedicated scientist or engineer. Or perhaps a civil servant with considerable financial knowledge. Instead, the departmentâs loan and grant programs are run by partisans who were responsible for raising money during the Obama campaign from the same people who later came to seek government loans and grants. The Government Accountability Office has been highly critical of the way guaranteed loans and grants were doled out by the Department of Energy, complaining that the process appears âarbitraryâ and lacks transparency. In March 2011, for example, the GAO examined the first 18 loans that were approved and found that none were properly documented. It also noted that officials âdid not always record the results of analysisâ of these applications. A loan program for electric cars, for example, âlacks performance measures.â No notes were kept during the review process, so it is difficult to determine how loan decisions were made. The GAO further declared that the Department of Energy âhad treated applicants inconsistently in the application review process, favoring some applicants and disadvantaging others. Full article at link below. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newswe...ative-energy-programs-became-green-graft.html