The phrase "attributed to oversight" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining that a mistake or error is due to a lack of attention or care.
Example: "The error in the report was attributed to oversight during the data entry process."
Alternatives: "due to negligence" or "caused by an oversight".
In both the Geithner and Daschle cases, the failure to pay taxes is attributed to unintentional oversights.
In the latest move against American Express, federal regulators said that "all violations" aside from the credit discrimination "are attributed to deficient management oversight of the bank's service providers".
The police detained 10 Israelis in connection with the disaster, and the accident was widely attributed to shoddy construction, poor municipal oversight and corruption in the building industry.
Of course, one of the reasons for the high cost of maintaining each soldier can be attributed to the lack of governmental oversight of private contractor billings, which are rampant with fraud, waste and fat.
The wide range of estimates of the burden of oversight can be attributed to measurement challenges and to the phenomenon being measured.
Countrywide switched to the O.T.S. in early 2007, a move that did consolidate the company's oversight but was also widely attributed to the attractions of the agency's perceived lighter touch.
Mr. Christian said laxness in board oversight in the 1990's could be attributed to both a general desire to maintain a collegial atmosphere in the boardroom and to the lulling effect of the stock market boom.
The setting was a session on the deadly collapse of the Versailles wedding hall last week, an accident being attributed to shoddy construction owing to corner-cutting by builders and improper oversight.
Now, in most cases, this type of oversight on the part of a politician could be dismissed--maybe even attributed to nerves.
(Also attributed to Ann Landers).
