U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, denied the advertisers' request for class-action status, saying they failed to show they had enough in common to sue for breach of contract and violating California's unfair competition law.
Lovell blamed the State Department for not making stronger requests for action.
Successful submissions will be on proposals that have not recently been debated by MPs and must contain a specific request for action on policy.
"We will certainly look at the senator's letter and request for action and respond to him as quickly as possible," she said.
Its requests for action, surveillance and agent recruitment were routinely turned down by C.I.A. station chiefs abroad, according to a former C.I.A. officer assigned to it.
The Middle East is a place where yes means maybe, maybe means no, no is never heard (except in Israel), and a plea for a foreign solution to regional problems is a cop-out, not a serious request for action.
In theory, no request for action should be taken directly to higher authorities — a process known as "stovepiping" — without the information on which it is based having been subjected to rigorous scrutiny.
This process also yields the deselection of data that would spur policymaker requests for action that, if taken, might yield an IC failure -- and so criticism from Congress, policymakers, or the media -- or expose the IC's unaddressed systemic failures".
Kenya Takizawa, a partner at M&A Consulting, said that he did not expect the auditors to agree to the company's request for action because, like most auditors in Japan, they work in-house and report directly to top management.
But with drastic British defense cuts and a Parliament that rebuffed Prime Minister David Cameron's request for action in Syria, Britain might become what Germany already is: a country that in matters of global security talks the talk without walking the walk.
