Daily Archives: September 11, 2026

Declassified 9/11 Presidential Daily Briefings

Heed the Book, Question the Narrative The CIA posted the 1998-2001 portfolio this morning. I write this as a man who has watched official story-making do its work twice in one lifetime. The first time, the country buried a presidential warning under a commission narrative and a laugh line. The second time, agencies, legacy newsrooms, and the platforms that now police speech treated dissent on a virus, a lab, and a shot as a hygiene problem. I do not stitch those years into one plot. I use the second as a warrant to reopen the first. Once a government has sold…

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From the Archives: 9/11 Remembered

Everything Has Changed N.B. First published as Volume II:26 on JamesKBishop.com, September 12, 2001. I wrote it from Internet America, then the largest independent ISP in Texas. The security team stayed on duty more than twenty-four hours. We were sure a cyber attack against the Internet itself was coming. It did not. The planes had already done the work. This is what I filed while we waited. On Tuesday, the world became smaller. The hijacking and suicide mission of four commercial flights caused the destruction of the World Trade Center, severe damage to the Pentagon, and a loss of life that…

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