The term illegal is not the same as inadmissible.  The recording isn&#x27;t illegal, and isn&#x27;t going to get anybody prosecuted for making it.  Whether it&#x27;s admissible is another question, but the article itself states:<p>&quot;What the government did here is not unlawful only because it occurred outside a courthouse...&quot;<p>The headline says illegal, but that&#x27;s not what the term actually means.  I know it&#x27;s semantics, but the argument you appear to be making is that law enforcement broke laws here.  They did not.  They may have a recording that they can&#x27;t use in court, but the recording itself is not illegal.