Here’s The National Review’s Rich Lowry explaining the Bush administration’s “shift” on the status of Gitmo detainees:

As far as I can tell from chatting with Geneva guru and Yale/Johns Hopkins law professor Ruth Wedgwood, the administration’s position comes down to this: If the Taliban were to wage a lawful war, wearing uniforms, with a neighboring country, say over a border dispute, they would qualify for Geneva protection.

Of course they didn’t and they weren’t, so they don’t. Nothing’s changed, essentially, and so this is, as Lowry points out, a non-story…

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