Defense lawyers blamed the Fire Department's many shortcomings in fighting the fire: a lack of safety ropes, lapses in procedures and breakdowns in communication.
The report, however, concluded that Mr. Latif hoarded the medication on his own and cited a series of oversights and lapses in procedures.
It was two months before the Presidential election, and Republicans were in an uproar over the lapse in security procedures.
Although paid by individual airlines, flight attendants would be among the first affected by any lapse in safety procedures.
In fact, the lapse in the "clearing" procedure involved Giuliani ignoring the city investigations commissioner when he arrived with the news that Kerik was involved with a company suspected of having ties to organized crime.
"We want them to have a healthy respect of the risk for any lapse in infection control procedure.
Also last year, a team of federal inspectors released a report that cited chronic lapses in safety procedures at Los Alamos that contributed to the radiation leak.
But experts who have seen the report pointed to a number of flaws, including a lack of competitive bidding, nonstakeholder participation, lapses in procurement procedures, and missing documentation.
But the report faulted his office, the United Nations Drug Control Program, in Vienna, for some lapses in recruitment procedures and handling of travel expenses, as well as overambitious programs begun before money was available to see them through.
Federal prosecutors investigating how the Police Department handles brutality cases have briefed police union officials on findings that they contend show how serious lapses in department procedures allowed brutal officers to go unpunished, according to several union officials.
