The administration has already sent one Guantanamo detainee, Ahmed Ghailani, to New York to face trial, but chose not to seek death in that case.***
If it was Military Tribunal then Obama would have to sign off on the death warrant if that's the sentence but in Civilian Federal Court he gets to avoid it.
Obama is not about protecting the US, he's a traitor.
The Courts will spring him for forced confessions by waterboarding.