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If Brian Conley was a participant to the meeting or conversationsand Illinois is a two party state with regards to wiretaping like New York is, then no law was broken. In New York it is illegal to intercept or tape any converation by a third party, i.e. someone not participating in the conversation. Some jurisdictions are one party states where taping is illegal under any circumstance. That's what got Linda Trip in trouble as she taped in a one party jurisdiction which was Maryland. Someone will have to ascertain if Illinois is a two party state as most states are, or a one party state with regards to wirtapping laws.

The law you quote is relevant only to electronic intercept of communications to which you are not a party.

Just because Conley was at the meeting, doesn't mean he was a participant in the meeting. It's likely that he got in as some type of undercover Harkin agent. After all, he plead the fifth and did his best to obstruct the later investigation, something neither Libby nor Rove did. If he didn't have guilty knowledge, he'd have probably cooperated to protect Harkin, as Libby and Rove did to protect Bush and Cheney. Their voluntary cooperation shows, by itself, that there was a lot less chance of a violation than in the Harkin case.

Nevertheless, Fitz went on a jihad in the Palme case. That shows he's trying, unethically, to destroy the Bush administration, in the middle of a war for our notional survival, on any basis he can fabricate and expects to be rewarded by becoming Hillary's AG. Nadler's enthusiastic recommendation for him as counsel for any potential impeachment investigation pretty well blows the scam and is strong evidence that there's been some kind of improper and unethical communication between him and the Clinton camp.

After all, the Clintons try to flip anybody they can. Just look at Rush with Markie Post, David Brock with his boy friend, probably introduced to him by the Clintons, and Gary Aldrich's account of an attempted flip in Unlimited Access.

Add to this the fact that destroying the Bush administration, making the WOT unwinable, would make him the Democrat superstar who'd be first on the list to become Hillary's AG. As such, he'd have unaccountable life and death power, just like Reno, provided only that he enabled anything Hillary wanted to do. It's a genuinely terrifying prospect.