In 2009, the bureau included Internet açaí marketers on its list of the year's "Top 10 Scams and Rip-Offs".
Detroit, with its huge automotive industry, was then regarded as a plum assignment, and the bureau included Norman Pearlstine, who eventually became the newspaper's managing editor.
The magazines that experienced significant decreases in ad pages, according to the bureau, included Rx Remedy, down 73.8percentt; Red Herring, down 64.5percentt; and Fast Company, down 53.6percentt.
Republicans have blocked confirmation of any director of the bureau — including Elizabeth Warren, now a Democratic senator from Massachusetts — because they opposed the bureau's creation and want changes to the way it is financed and overseen.
A nomination is subject to Senate confirmation, but 44 Republican senators have said they will not consider any nominee until structural changes are made in the bureau, including replacing its single director with a five-member commission.
Rob Cromwell, a former senior F.B.I. agent who oversaw all background investigations for the bureau, including those at the White House, said it would be highly unusual for the agency not to have informed the White House of such allegations.
Not surprisingly, the praise that has been directed at the bureau, including a widely noticed column in May by David Ignatius in The Washington Post, has prompted some backbiting at other intelligence agencies from officials who argue that its successes are being exaggerated.
In 2009, the bureau included Internet açaí marketers on its list of the year's "Top 10 Scams and Rip-Offs". That August, Winfrey and Oz filed a trademark-infringement complaint against forty of them, stating that they had never endorsed any açaí product by name, and Winfrey has since posted a similar warning on her Web site.
Mulvaney has stated he is moving the responsibilities of the Office for Students and Young Consumers under the broad umbrella of "financial education". He has also announced a more sweeping reorganization of the bureau, including the creation of an Office of Cost-Benefit Analysis.
