"We trained about 400 election monitors who went back to Serbia and trained another 15,000 monitors". Without a massive monitoring operation, and an equally massive parallel vote count organized by the Serbian Center for Free Elections and Democracy, this fall's effort to unseat Milosevic would almost certainly have failed.
Preliminary findings of an election monitoring operation led by a Malian NGO, consisting of 2,100 observers stationed across the country, reported high turnout and "no major incident".In Bamako, crowds swelled at the schools that doubled as voting precincts; some people waited nearly two hours to cast their ballot.
The F.B.I.'s surveillance of the guild was part of a broad monitoring operation mounted by the agency under Mr. Hoover against groups and individuals it deemed seditious, like the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"We will need a proper independent monitoring operation, a commissioner, to monitor what is happening and to be able to publish reports on it in a way that isn't true of the private sector," he said.
Instead, news organizations often cite statistics from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitoring operation with a skeleton staff that claims a vast network of sources across Syria.
Six months after a first Islamist attack in Belgium, when a Frenchman shot dead four people at Brussels Jewish Museumm, that was enough to set off an intensive monitoring operation.
Vale also highlights its support for an extensive monitoring operation in the forest run by the Brazilian Government's conservation agency ICMBio - so we checked with the agency to get their perspective.
British MPs will question American intelligence chiefs in Washington this week over Britain's involvement in a controversial internet monitoring operation that allegedly harvested information from millions of private emails.
The military says it is now running a year-old monitoring operation in the area to find out where problems are.
Such spyware gives governments that previously had no cybersurveillance programs a sophisticated plug-in monitoring operation that can track a citizen's location, record their every keystroke, read e-mails, social networking and instant messenger chats, and even remotely switch on a device's camera or microphone to record their conversations.
