Open Veils · Answer
Why have all flights been canceled in the US today?
The official story is infrastructure failure — aging 1980s copper-wire TDM switching technology buckled under data load. What the record does not resolve is why a system this brittle was still operating at scale, who defunded modernization, and why the timing and scope produced the longest nationwide shutdown since 9/11.
Evidence
- Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin stated there was 'zero evidence' of a cyberattack or foreign adversary involvement (BBC, November 14, 2026).
- The deeper record Catherine Austin Fitts and Whitney Webb have documented at length is relevant here: decades of Pentagon and federal budget irregularities have left critical civilian infrastructure chronically underfunded while black-budget programs received priority capital.
- The controller shortage Reuters flagged — several thousand positions unfilled — compounded the technical failure.
- Secretary Duffy told reporters: 'We have old, old switches, old routers, we use 1980s little copper lines.'
- He estimated a $50 billion overhaul price tag and warned, 'It's going to continue to fail.'