Judge: Feds illegally wiretapped Islamic charity

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that the warrantless wiretapping of an Islamic charity during a terror probe was illegal.

The ruling was made Wednesday.

The Ashland, Ore., branch of the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation filed the lawsuit in 2004 alleging that investigators eavesdropped on telephone conversations earlier that year without court approval.