There are these quotes:
WASHINGTON — For a moment, he became judge, jury and executioner.
President Obama yesterday blurted out a predicted conviction and death sentence for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed — then sheepishly qualified the prejudgment.
In one of several TV interviews at the end of his Asia trip, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges offered to Mohammed in a civilian rather than military trial won’t find it “offensive at all when he’s convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him.”
And then he quickly backtracked, saying he didn’t mean to suggest he was prejudging the self-confessed mass murderer.
“I’m not going to be in that courtroom,” Obama said. “That’s the job of the prosecutors, the judge and the jury.”
In interviews broadcast on NBC and CNN, the president also said experienced prosecutors who specialize in terrorism have offered assurances that “we’ll convict this person with the evidence they’ve got, going through our system.”
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/bam_big_drAQ4TlTFziefTaNw8M5qN
He is not stupid enough to say that publically and not know exactly what he was doing. It is lawyer 101.