[Star Wars] Did nobody notice the slowly amassing military of the Republic?

Kamino was tucked away off the charts and expunged, I get that part, but they were just doing the growing and training of clones. The Republic showed up at the first battle on Geonosis already in posession of LAATs, AT-TEs, and presumably Venators to transport it after Yoda traveled to Kamino. We know all of these are made by Republic companies like Kuat Drive Yards, Rothana Heavy Engineering, etc. A Venator is no small little project: That's at the very least a whole city's worth of labor to fully construct. And it's pretty explicitly a military ship; It's not like some rich senator would have one commissioned for shits and giggles.

So somehow the Republic, who is currently dealing with a cecesion crisis of Sepratists and would likely be hyper aware of which companies are arming who, somehow failed to notice this fleet of heavy ordinance being amassed and presumably flown off to what's recognized as deep uncharted space to Kamino? And not only that but it had to have been going on for years.