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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge has ordered the government to pay more than $2.5 million in damages and attorney fees after he concluded investigators wiretapped the phones of a suspected terrorist organization without a warrant.
U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker said Tuesday that attorneys for the U.S. chapter of the now-defunct Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation should get $2.5 million for waging their nearly four-year legal challenge to the Bush administration’s Terrorist Surveillance Program.
Walker also awarded $20,400 each to two of the foundation’s principals.
The judge ruled earlier that investigators illegally intercepted electronic communications without warrants.
