I know that sounds like a contradiction in terms but I instantly knew what he meant.
It absolutely is not a contradiction in terms.
People do not understand the etymology of the term, and thus do not understand its implications:
To conspire means to breathe together: to breathe the same air.
That “air” is totalitarian (Marxist or Muslim, in today’s context) ideology.
Obama does not have to give explicit directions to Lois Lerner and her ilk (although he may do, or have done, so); they breathe the same communistic, despotic, treasonous air.
Conspiracies are, in fact, the norm, not the exception: Every high school clique of the in crowd that keeps petty secrets from the out crowd is a conspiracy.
Humans are naturally social and conspiratorial: They find like-minded persons and form groups; the levels of socializing and conspiring obviously differ enormously group to group.
One of the Big Lies in American culture, promulgated, naturally, by the mainstream media, is that conspiracies do not exist, and that anyone who says they do is crazy.
The idea that the Bilderbergers, with their extraordinary armed security and thorough ban of the press, are somehow not a conspiracy in plain sight is ludicrous - yet the narrative is faithfully maintained by the left-wing media.
Among these ostensibly objective reporters are persons who actually belonged to JournoList - a conspiracy founded by Ezra Klein. Of course, this was a leftist conspiracy, because leftists rely upon secrecy and deceit, since open declaration of their true intentions would outrage normal, patriotic Americans.
Conservatives generally admit to being conservative; communists generally do not admit to being communist. The ones who are the most deeply conspiratorial are usually leftist at heart.
Well stated.