https://www.definitions.net/definition/informant
InformantAn informant is a person who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency.
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https://definitions.uslegal.com/i/informants/
Implications;
Informants are those who covertly provide information...
Use of informants has sometimes led to controversy... ------------------------------------------------------------------------
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informant
The CIA has been criticized for leniency towards...paid informants...
Informants are often regarded as traitors by their former criminal associates. Whatever the nature of a group, it is likely to feel strong hostility toward any known informers, regard them as threats and inflict punishments ranging from social ostracism through physical abuse and/or death
GO NO FURTHER...
terminate the term.; this is not the Old Testament.
It is archaic and misleading; if not outright offensive and potentially dangerous given these politicized times and weaponized methods.
Informant is no longer viable as an anthropological referent
Bruce E. Woych
New York, USA
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