[lordnacho]

At the risk of sounding snarky, if the oversight worked there wouldn't be all these stories.

Look at the F35 thread that appears here now and again. Loads and loads of congressional districts involved, loads and loads of people with a stake. It still ended up costing an insane amount more than it needed to.

With private actually I don't think it's all that different though, the difference is some of the private ventures are allowed to die once the failure is complete.

Totally agree that public interest ought to matter, just I don't see that it actually holds people to account.