informants

Example Sentences

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And so you bet we paid these informants who shared information with us, and guess what we did with it?

From Slate • May 4, 2026

The evidence for this scheme consisted mostly of the fact that the law center relied on paid informants for its work, not unlike the FBI.

From Slate • May 1, 2026

“The Department of Justice also knows that these confidential informants helped law enforcement put violent extremists in jail.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

F is for “field source,” the SPLC’s term for inside informants it paid to gather intelligence on white-supremacist groups.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026

Based on leads from informants and from circumstantial evidence, the private detectives began to develop a crystalline theory of the crime.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann