After testimony one day last week, Mr. Gilliland was on his cellphone telling an editor at The Bradford Era, a Pennsylvania daily that is using his reports, that he planned to write an article on how Adelphia money was used by Mr. Rigas's wife, Doris, to buy antiques.
What readers have known for decades is that Agee used his reporting material to create his 1941 book, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," a literary description of abject poverty in the South, accompanied by starkly haunting Walker Evans photographs.
Freeh used his report to reinforce that initial impression.
Rosenstein was reportedly angry about the president using his report in that way.
Denis O'Connor, Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary, used his report to demand wide-ranging reforms and a return to an ideal of policing based on "approachability, impartiality, accountability and … minimum force".
More often, though, they do: Matt Weiner siphoned childhood memories for "Mad Men," David Chase drew on his Italian-American heritage in "The Sopranos," and David Simon used his reporting experience in Baltimore for "The Wire".
Al Majid and Mersiades have also complained that Eckert used his report to question their credibility.
Bank governor Mark Carney could use his "inflation report" to warn markets they are too relaxed about the timing of future rate rises, economists warn.
"We are eager to read and use his final report in a few months, but the most significant contribution is that Alston has listened carefully and has been a loudspeaker for hundreds of people that are too often paid very little attention to," he said.
He's expected to use his new report to further pummel TSA, a behemoth agency that has grown to more than 60,000 employees -- most of them working as security screeners in airports.
