Udall to Holder: ‘Don’t try to protect citizens by lying to them’

Colorado U.S. Senator Mark Udall, a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has been a champion in the post-9/11 era of the need to balance tough national security measures against concerns for civil liberties and privacy protections. Wednesday he sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder expressing “deep concern” over a plan to rework a key regulation tied to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The new regulation, known as 16.6(f)(2), would allow the government to lie to citizens seeking sensitive information.

ACLU demands look into FBI anti-terror ethnic mapping project

The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado joined with other ACLU affiliates Wednesday in submitting a Freedom of Information Act request asking the FBI to release records on an anti-terrorism program that maps “ethnic oriented” businesses, behaviors and cultural…

Spy vs Spy: Lefties plan to infiltrate whacko tax day tea parties

It was bound to happen. The Tea Party movement can seem so bizarre– what with the Nazi outfits and three-corner patriot hats strung with tea bags, the misspelled signs touting the English language and the conspiracy theories that predominate– it…

BREAKING: Aurora man admits to ties with al Qaeda, could plea on charges

Fox News and ABC are reporting the Aurora shuttle bus driver at the center of an FBI investigation into a suspected bombing plot has admitted to ties with the al Qaeda terrorist network and is negotiating a plea…

Bennet statement on terror probe reveals staff scramble for updates

An e-mailed statement sent Tuesday evening from U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet’s office about an anti-terrorism investigation with Colorado ties inadvertently included a chain of more than a dozen e-mails from staffers scrambling to update the boss and worrying whether news organizations might conclude the state’s junior senator wasn’t “as much in the loop” as U.S. Sen. Mark Udall.

FBI: Vail eco-terrorism suspect spotted near Vancouver

The FBI on Friday said one of four suspects still at large in the 1998 eco-terror arson attack on Vail Mountain may have been spotted near Vancouver, British Columbia.

Court docs: Suicide mission planned in plot to kill Obama at DNC

Denver’s 9NEWS reports the FBI asked for more serious charges to be filed against at least one of the suspects arrested last week in a suspected plot to kill Barack Obama during the Democratic National Convention. Federal court documents obtained by reporter Jace Larson describe a plot to assassinate Obama in a suicide mission using a gun hidden inside a camera.

FBI: Not so fast on supposed Obama threat

The AP’s Steven Paulson reports that federal investigators are downplaying the seriousness of a possible threat against Barack Obama

Ex-Agent Decries Dead End of Data Mining

What drove Mike German from the FBI to the ACLU wasn’t just a sense of outrage; it was a sense of futility.

German was an FBI agent for 16 years. He worked part of that time thwarting domestic terrorists.…

Foreclosure Crisis Will Linger, Aurora Residents Told

The Arapahoe County Assessor’s Office employs Cherice Kjosness. But she has spent a lot of time lately working around agents from the FBI and the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.

“We had significant (mortgage) fraud in Arapahoe County,” Kjosness explained…