It's all about the uniform

As Steven Hadley stated repeatedly on This Week, and numerous other members of the administration have recently stated: war prisoners in uniform will be treated in accord with the Geneva convention while war struggle prisoners not wearing a uniform may or may not have something done to them that we don't really want to discuss but let's just say it may or may not fit into one or another's interpretation of the Geneva Convention.

Example of a uniform if you're an intelligence field operative.
Not an example of a uniform if you're on the other side of the global war struggle against Islamofascism.

A close friend of mine used to spend his work days finding and then bombing the bad guys in the part of the world in question here. After sending in the drones he'd get out of his tent and physically check who was hit. There actually was an identification process to verify that the geographic location hit did or did not contain the intended target. How he identified the Qaida members he never said, and he'll probably never be allowed to say, but the point is that there was an identification process to distinguish the guy with the sunglasses hit by the drone's bomb and the guy with the sunglasses who steered the drone. And rightfully so because that's how we catch them now and that's how some other force in the future might catch us then; let's not allow them to tinker with the rules by using our reasoning.