One important thing to note for people reading media sources on this topic - "Consensually recorded" in IG-speak means the CHS (confidential human source) agree

One important thing to note for people reading media sources on this topic - "Consensually recorded" in IG-speak means the CHS (confidential human source) agreed to wear a wire--not that the target agreed to be recorded. This is why AG Barr call this spying. The same with sending FBI into "briefing" to collect info on General Flynn. Media is spinning this "consensually recorded" as if both parties agreed to be recorded and therefore not spying but that's not true at all. https://oig.justice.gov/special/0509/chapter6.htm https://oig.justice.gov/special/0509/chapter6.htm > Consensual monitoring is the interception by an electronic device of any wire, oral, or electronic communication where one of the parties to the communication has given prior consent to the monitoring or recording.