I would be very careful, were I an advocate of this administration's attempts to redefine, stretch and ignore the Geneva Conventions, not to insist that only those fighting for entities adhering to the Conventions have the privilege of being treated according to its provisions.

However, we are talking about people who were snatched up and put in prisons, some of them secret, and then treated God knows how. Secrecy has that effect on treatment. Their legal status is not clear. If they are to be held as POWs, then that's one set of rules, but they haven't been. If they are not, and are being held for crimes committed (not military actions, which are also violent and distructive, but subject to other rules), then they are entitled to their day in court.