Rod Lurie

Simply stated, sometimes journalists can only get their information from informants who must remain anonymous in order to protect their careers and sometimes even their lives: Watergate: Confidential sources. The Pentagon Papers: Confidential sources. Enron: Confidential sources.

Israeli Director

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

American Politician

Alan Dundes

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

American Educator

Junot Diaz

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.' I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

American Writer

Their term project consists of a fieldwork collection of folklore that they create by interviewing family members, friends, or anyone they can manage to persuade to serve as an informant.

Linda Colley

Brussels and its multifarious networks provide member states not just with trading access but also a guarantee of regular encounters, negotiations, contacts, informants, and alliances.

British Historian

Ibrahim Hooper

There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.

American Activist

Lee Hyeon-seo

Inside North Korea, we have many informants and spies watching everyone; they're paid by the government. Even a husband and wife can't trust each other.

South Korean Writer

Adam Cohen

There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.

American Journalist

Kevin Mitnick

I don't know of any case that involves computer hacking where there were multiple defendants charged where there wasn't an informant on the case.

American Businessman

Used when someone secretly collects and shares information, often related to intelligence or law enforcement.

Covert Operations

Being an informant can have legal consequences or protections, depending on the information shared.

Legal Implications

Informants are often viewed with suspicion or mistrust because they share information secretly.

Trust Issues

An informant in academic research provides inside details about their culture or language.

Cultural Insight

Linguistic informants help preserve rare or dying languages by sharing their knowledge.

Preserving Languages

Informants are invaluable in ethnography, offering real-life context to studies on human societies.

Ethnographic Research

 they had three hots and a cot as one of my informants was fond of saying they had the time and resources to spare on seemingly less important things like aftershave and Cologne the moment I discovered this tin I was elated but I have to be entirely honest I wasn't just excited about what the tin might tell us

Adrian Myers: Where...

 message embedded into this visual world that people are drawn in and embraces and I think as I like the shape and design worlds as I move into this new industry of film I'm hopefully going to chase it informant in a small but significant way because I think there are lots and lots hundreds and thousands

Making stories come to...

 of cleartext communication. And what kind of things were people talking about? Well, they found the names and information about confidential informants. They found information that was being recorded in wiretaps, a bunch of crimes that were being discussed, sensitive information.

Avi Rubin: All your...

 making its planned economy even less competitive. Life in East Germany passed under the watchful eye of the Stasi, the secret police whose wiretaps and informants monitored citizens for any hint of disloyalty. While there was free health care and education in the East,

The rise and fall of the...

 some regiments outside maybe not very visible standing by for crowd control and then the small force the snatch-and-grab force that's probably built of the informant so someone that he knows someone that he respects and has no front and trust exactly it's okay

Arresting Jesus PIPE...

 This sort of conservation is so detrimental because it means that local people will forever be the helpers or the local informants and never the leaders and the decision makers. And when that happens, people lose. And when people lose, wildlife loses.

Why Africa Needs...

 very very simple sentences with my informants I came to strange obstacle having come to a weather my informant refused to say this is a beautiful weather or this is a good Alberto because it just said it cannot be beautiful it cannot be good

The ecological knowledge...

 This guideline gave a detailed description of every step you have to take if you want to convince human beings to betray their fellow citizens. Sometimes it's said that informants were pressured to becoming one,

Hubertus Knabe: The dark...

 despite the risk babe AB has persuaded them to talk to me be bad relies on intelligence from informants in his efforts to combat wildlife crime and has

Interviewing Ex-Rhino...

 across town detectives from maricopa county sheriff's office are staking out a parking lot they're using an informant posing as a