July 13 (Bloomberg) -- When White House press secretary Tony Snow announced this week the U.S. would now abide by the Geneva Conventions, he said, ``It's not really a reversal of policy.'' Try telling that to enemy combatants subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment or to the families some of them left behind. More than 100 detainees have died in U.S. custody, according to Human Rights Watch, although there's no hard number on how many of those deaths have come as a result of abuse. Just as Snow was making his announcement on Tuesday, Pentagon General Counsel William J. Haynes II, who had pushed for harsh interrogation methods over the objections of other top military lawyers, was appearing at confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee. President George W.