The phrase "a surveillance programme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing systems or initiatives designed to monitor activities or behaviors, often for security or research purposes.
Example: "The government has implemented a surveillance programme to enhance national security and prevent potential threats."
Alternatives: "a monitoring system" or "an observation initiative".
The Post report describes a surveillance programme code-named Prism, which is meant to target foreigners but seems to collect a good deal of purely American content.
The Liberal Democrats have said they will oppose such a surveillance programme that logs everyone's web use, while Labour agrees with them that much tougher oversight is needed.
John Brennan's comments on Monday represent the most significant pushback yet against recent reforms of a surveillance programme that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records and was exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.
He and Mark Udall, a Democratic senator from Colorado, have in the past accused the government of using "secret legal interpretations" to justify a surveillance programme that would leave Americans "stunned" were it made public.
Under pressure from Ron Wyden, a senator from Oregon, the country's spymaster admitted that the panel of judges that supervises the spooks had "on at least one occasion" halted a surveillance programme on the grounds that it was unconstitutional.
But it is a measure of the difficulty of the decision that the White House did not produce a name immediately.Mr Bush wants to preserve as much of his anti-terrorism machinery as possible particularly a surveillance programme that needs to be reauthorised again in five months.
These chromatograms reveal how a surveillance programme for TS and JM residues can be performed under the proposed chromatographic conditions.
Incidentally discovered small AAAs are entered into a surveillance programme until they reach a suitable size for repair.
The American is wanted for leaking to media that the US is systematically seizing vast amounts of phone and web data under a surveillance programme known as Prism.
Following the identification of two clinical isolates of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) from intensive care unit (ICU) patients, a surveillance programme detected that six of eight ICU patients were colonised by VRE.
We used sequence data from a surveillance programme to generate a PR8-based seed virus with the HA and NA of a contemporary circulating H3N2 human strain, A/England/611/07 (E611) that did not itself grow in eggs.
