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Michal Conger is a Washington Examiner Opinion staff writer. She attended school at Hillsdale College and previously worked at the Washington Times.

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  • DHS refuses FOIA request for Tsarnaev immigration records

    Michal Conger

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Department of Homeland Security officials are refusing to release immigration documents for ­Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, citing the agency’s ongoing investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing allegedly carried out by the Chechen brothers. Both the Boston Globe newspaper...

  • EPA inspector general investigating claims agency used fees to block FOIA requests

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Bob Perciasepe has asked the Inspector General for the EPA to investigate claims the agency hindered inquiries by conservative groups by charging fees routinely waived for watchdog and media groups. Perciasepe announced the request for...

  • Terrorists on No-Fly List allowed to take commercial flights

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Several known terrorists in the Department of Justice witness protection program were allowed on commercial flights even though they were on the “no-fly” list intended to help track and restrict their activity, a report by the DOJ Inspector General released Thursday. The witness protection...

  • Afghan government arresting U.S. contractors over improper taxes

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    Contractors doing reconstruction work in Afghanistan are being intimidated and even arrested by the Afghan government over nearly $1 billion in taxes they’re supposed to be exempt from, according to a new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction. The Afghan Ministry...

  • EPA waives fee requests for friendly groups, denies conservative groups

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Conservative...

  • Detroit emergency manager’s report paints bleak picture of broke city

    Michal Conger

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Even if Detroit stopped functioning as a city and did nothing but collect taxes and pay its creditors, it couldn’t pay off its debts in 20 years, according to a new report out by a state-appointed emergency manager. That report by Emergency Financial Manager Kevyn Orr paints a bleak...

  • UPDATE: IRS apologizes for singling out Tea Party groups during election

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

    Political groups with the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications were flagged for extra review by the Internal Revenue Service during the 2012 election, the IRS admitted today, according to the Associated Press. Lois Lerner, who heads the unit that oversees tax-exempt...

  • Biden: Obama determined to use executive power on climate change

    Michal Conger

    Updated: Fri, May 10, 2013

    Climate legislation like cap-and-trade has never been approved by Congress, but President Obama is determined to make global warming a top priority of his second term with or without congressional approval, Vice President Joe Biden told Rolling Stone Thursday. “In the very beginning, we...


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