There are only two known listening stations that pick up the kind of data sought by the Bush Administration's controversial domestic surveillance program. One is in Yakima, Washington. The other is in Pendleton County, West Virginia. Chances are you won?t see any signs of the facility if you go through the tiny community of Sugar Grove. But its reach extends throughout the world. Jim Bamford: ?The whole reason for being there is that Etam, West Virginia, is just up the road and that?s the main downlink for commercial and international satellites. And this is like a bug. It?s there catching the same signals coming in.? And new equipment at the site suggests the base is eavesdropping on communications in the U.S. Jim Bamford: ?If you?re just collecting signals from a domestic satellite, you just a need a little dish. And they have a lot of those little dishes there, which is kind of interesting because smaller dishes are what you use for domestic intelligence.? Tonight, ?Big Ears in the Mountains? ? a look at the role a secluded base in West Virginia plays in the NSA?s surveillance of communications here, and abroad.

There are only two known listening stations that pick up the kind of data sought by the Bush Administration's controversial domestic surveillance program. One is in Yakima, Washington. The other is in Pendleton County, West Virginia. Chances are you won?t see any signs of the facility if you go through the tiny community of Sugar Grove. But its reach extends throughout the world. Jim Bamford: ?The whole reason for being there is that Etam, West Virginia, is just up the road and that?s the main downlink for commercial and international satellites. And this is like a bug. It?s there catching the same signals coming in.? And new equipment at the site suggests the base is eavesdropping on communications in the U.S. Jim Bamford: ?If you?re just collecting signals from a domestic satellite, you just a need a little dish. And they have a lot of those little dishes there, which is kind of interesting because smaller dishes are what you use for domestic intelligence.? Tonight, ?Big Ears in the Mountains? ? a look at the role a secluded base in West Virginia plays in the NSA?s surveillance of communications here, and abroad.