Welcome to the party. The New York Times has a lengthy piece on Solyndra on all of the warning signs that might have tipped of someone in the DOE that this company was a piece of junk:

In Rush to Assist a Solar Company, U.S. Missed Signs

But, hey, you know who else missed these sign? The New York Times. Here’s how they reported the loan back in 2009. (Here is our first take on the deal from 2009.) There’s not a single concern in the Times’s piece that maybe this isn’t the best use of $535 million.