To be fair, how could we know this about any of hundreds of other government programs that touch our lives, whether we know about them or not? Mandated vaccina

To be fair, how could we know this about any of hundreds of other government programs that touch our lives, whether we know about them or not? Mandated vaccination regimes? We know about those, but what about the specific drugs/vaccines that go in each regimen? I don't remember voting for the person at HHS overseeing that. Nuclear weapons development and stockpiles? How do you know those are being properly supervised or not? Foreign military sales? How do you know we're only giving our allies ships and other arms that wouldn't give away vital American secrets? Or what about IRS tax audit policies? How do we know those are applied constitutionally? Or abroad, how do we know that our diplomats are not doing anything shady? Or even at home, how do you know the local cops don't have a pen register wiretap running on your cell phone tower this very day? And it could go on and on. When it comes to the USG it's frankly a bunch of "unknown unknowns" that the people similarly can't really pre-emptively sue about. That's why it's important to get the built-in transparency and oversight measures correct in the first place, as the job of oversight is far too complicated to leave to the people alone.