bulllllllllshit. Don't give a fuck about informants unless you are in a cartel or something? Do you really believe that or do you just say it to sleep at night. TONS AND TONS AND TONS of people are in prison due to informants, people who are no where near cartel level. DEA doesn't bother with informants? Please they are first and foremost a human intelligence agency, managing networks of informants and snitches is the primary thing that they do.  This is standard practice in any sort of organized crime investigation, it shows an extreme amount of naivety to think that they don't use informants regularly against the drug trade really it amazes me how much you know about what the DEA cares about, exact figures even. why not put that info back in your ass where it came from. But you are largely right about the carder scene.