probably have to be 99% wireless and each packet envelope fully encrypted (can you say slooow), since the big telecom companies own all the wires and uncle sam gets a copy of everything that travels over them diverted out to their new data fortress in utah.

also, unless someone who is outside the gov's reach has the wherewithal to lay their own undersea cables or launch their own com satellites and protect them from deliberate destruction, i just don't see it happening.