Six Degrees of Osama bin Laden

By Molly Ivins, AlterNet. Posted January 5, 2006.

So Bush unnecessarily breaks a law, then denounces anyone who discusses it as helping 'the enemy.'

My theory is that they don't tell him anything, that's why the president keeps sounding like he doesn't know what he's talking about.

There he was at Brooke Army Medical Center over the weekend, once again getting it wrong: "I can say that if somebody from al-Qaida's calling you, we'd like to know why. In the meantime, this program is conscious of people's civil liberties, as am I. This is a limited program … I repeat, limited. And it's limited to calls from outside the United States, to calls within the United States."