Are you going to believe Fake News or your lying eyes. For days now, the mainstream media has been playing games with the difference between "spy", "informant", and "confidential human source". No you are not going insane - to average people like you and me they are all synonyms
From Merriam Webster:
From Dictionary.com
I guess in the mainstream media's eyes - it all comes down to what the meaning of "is" is.