A conspiracy is something hidden.
"This is more frightening to me than if it has to do with a conspiracy or something from outer space," Mr. Burns said.
That, he said, was why CNN dispatched a camera crew to Hawaii last week to fact-check the conspiracy theories, something it had done three years ago, when Mr. Obama first released legal proof of his eligibility while running for president.
"Every time there's a shortage or a little bit of a price spike, it's always collusion or conspiracy or something," Mr. Lay said in the interview, which was also taped for "Frontline" on PBS.
People see the blackouts as an irritation, an outrageous failure of planning and politics, perhaps a business conspiracy, but something that should pass, like a once-a-decade hailstorm, or an earthquake that knocks a few cereal boxes off the shelf.
Whether there were others who helped conceive or carry out the plan, beyond a carpenter and a welder who have been arrested, and whether the bombers acted in an isolated cell or were part of a wider conspiracy, is something F.B.I. and Yemeni investigators are still struggling to determine, American officials say.
The regime has decided that Bahari is a 'spy' – for the CIA, or the American-Zionist conspiracy, or something.
