This page contains links to FBI documents obtained by the ACLU of Colorado in response to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act.
The FBI redacted certain portions of the files it released. In most cases, the FBI indicated, with notations such as “b7C” or “b7D,” the section of the Freedom of Information Act on which it relies to justify each redaction. The FBI also supplies a page titled explanation of exemptions that contains the full text of each of the statutory exemptions from disclosure.
FBI case identification numbers beginning with 266 signify cases the FBI has classified as “domestic terrorism.” Some FBI acronyms and abbreviations, such as AOT (acts of terrorism) and DT (domestic terrorism) are translated here.
Document released March 28, 2006, documenting FBI surveillance of Breakdown Bookstore in Denver and monitoring of protesters car-pooling to antiwar demonstration
- “FBI conducts surveillance of Denver bookstore and records license plate numbers of vehicles “in the vicinity,” ACLU News Release, March 28, 2006
- FBI report on surveillance of Breakdown Bookstore, February 15, 2003
Documents released December 8, 2005 regarding protests at the 2002 convention of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association and a 2003 antiwar demonstration in Colorado Springs
- “New documents confirm that FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force wastes resources and threatens First Amendment rights by targeting peaceful protest activity as ‘domestic terrorism,’” ACLU News Release, December 8, 2005
- FBI reports dated June 4, 2002 and September 9, 2002, regarding protests at the convention of the North American Wholesale Lumber Association
- FBI report dated Feb. 11, 2003, regarding antiwar demonstration planned in Colorado Springs
FBI documents from files on Colorado AIM and Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center, released August 2, 2005
- “New documents confirm that FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force treats peaceful protest as potential terrorism,” ACLU News Release, August 2, 2005
- FBI report dated June 18, 2002, from file on Colorado AIM
- Newspaper article dated May 3, 1999, regarding Coalition to Stop Vail Expansion, from FBI file on Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
- FBI report regarding Activist Media Project, dated July 20, 2000, from file on Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
- FBI report dated February 11, 2003, opening preliminary domestic terrorism investigation of anti-war demonstrations planned in Colorado Springs, from file on Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
Documents from FBI files on Sara Bardwell and Scott Silber, released May 18, 2005
- “New documents confirm: FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force targets peaceful activists for harassment, political surveillance,” ACLU News Release, May 18, 2005
- Report dated August 2, 2004, from FBI file on Sara Bardwell
- Report dated December 7, 2004, from FBI file on Sara Bardwell
- Report dated August 2, 2004, from FBI file on Scott Silber