Ronald Bech, chief information officer at the Defence Department, reportedly told a Guantanamo Bay military tribunal that it 'shouldn't have happened', but insisted that government officials were not watching attorneys' computer activities when they used Defence Department systems. The report says lawyers for the five defendants, who face charges of murder, terrorism and hijacking, are asking for planned military commission hearings to be suspended because of concerns about extensive computer problems. Technical difficulties have prompted allegations that large numbers of files have been lost, that e-mails have gone astray and that privileged defence documents were inadvertently passed to the prosecution, according to the report. Full report in The Washington Post