I really just disagree with all of that. Assange did not appear to me to be making any assumption about political power being monolithic. He is only talking a

I really just disagree with all of that. Assange did not appear to me to be making any assumption about political power being monolithic. He is only talking about conspiracies as things in general having power, and notes that large parts of the US government act in conspirational ways.. Further, I don't think you can really have any model of current regime which absolutely could not function if it could not communicate secretly. The sum of every secret conversation that the conspirator would not want the world to know about because it would breed opposition is the net capacity of the organization to act in unjust ways. If it cannot communicate internally in secret, it simply cannot act in unjust ways for any length of time.