"Where I have not followed procedures, I can only say that I'm sorry".
If the officers are found to have followed procedures, the current charges against them would likely be dropped, officials said.
"I know myself that I did the best job that I could and I followed procedures," she said.
But in a letter to members, Mr. Standard said the group had not followed procedures for club mailings.
"Given the understanding that people had about this issue at that time, 20 years ago, the bishop followed procedures that he believed were appropriate," Mr. DeRosa said.
A lawyer for Taylor, Bernard Kleinman, said she had notified the school of the trip, had followed procedures and had acted in the scope of her employment.
Arlene Salac, a spokeswoman for the F.A.A., said that the agency had followed procedures for making route changes, and that there were consultations and community notifications.
Before Redress was created, Postal Service employees embroiled in disputes with their bosses followed procedures that could drag on for years.
However, Saccacio expected the number of repossessions to slow in October, because of the moratorium some lenders have imposed while they investigate whether they followed procedures correctly.
Instead the inquiry, which will report in the spring, would limit itself to questions about how the scientists behaved, and whether they properly followed procedures.
He said that "there are many, many ways to do this," but all of them "can be largely eliminated" by rigorously followed procedures.
