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HMM: Fisker-GM plant deal under scrutiny from Judicial Watch. When Fisker Automotive announced i?

By Glenn Reynolds

HMM: Fisker-GM plant deal under scrutiny from Judicial Watch.

When Fisker Automotive announced it would buy an old General Motors plant in Delaware last fall, it was mostly reported as good news. The one bit of controversy was what role vice president Joe Biden played; Fisker said he was emphatically not a factor for locating the plug-in hybrid plant in the veep’s home state.

That statement wasn’t enough for conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch, which is filing a Freedom of Information lawsuit over documents relating to the purchase, the Newark Post reports.

I suspect there’s a lot of room for legal challenges over a lot of the bailout transactions, and if the right had the kind of legal infrastructure that the left had this would be generating more litigation than Guantanamo.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 26, 2010 (boomark / email).