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With all the secrecy surrounding the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay, it is no surprise that lawyers representing detainees are seeing shadows – or at least worrying about the Government eavesdropping on their conversations with clients at the prison. Now the detainees’ lawyers say the spectre of wiretapping means they cannot promise confidentiality to their non-Guantanamo clients either. These highly sensitive lawyers are also worried about their colleagues, with whom they share phone and computer networks.