heh, my boss was on a public sector project that went so far south she was stalked by news crews leaving the office. The experience left a pretty deep scar on her. This was before my time thank babyjeebus.
Kinda wondering the odds of there being one crying into their coffee over a stack of memos saying they should do something before it fails, or some greybeard angrily pointing to their quality control concerns on a new system. Both are pretty common with federal IT.