The phrase "asserted privilege" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in legal contexts to refer to a claim of a right or immunity that is being maintained or upheld by a party.
Example: "The attorney asserted privilege during the deposition, preventing the witness from disclosing certain information."
Alternatives: "claimed privilege" or "maintained privilege".
Gleeson said while the Australian legal team did not have access to the seized documents, there were "reasonable grounds to consider that the materials over which Timor-Leste asserts privilege may include written statements or affidavits by a former Asis officer made to Mr Collaery on behalf of Timor-Leste, disclosing national security information of Australia".
The danger of asserting privileges is that they often come with unwelcome responsibilities.
Instead, lesbian relationships have often been regarded as harmless and incomparable to heterosexual ones unless the participants attempted to assert privileges traditionally enjoyed by men.
"The Obama administration has not asserted executive privilege or any other valid privilege over these materials and it is unacceptable that the Department of Justice refuses to produce them," said Mr. Issa, Republican of California, said in a statement.
Last week, he seemed to bait Mr. Holder when he said in a statement, "the Obama administration has not asserted executive privilege or any other valid privilege," so it could not refuse to produce the materials.
President Bush asserted executive privilege in 2001, his only assertion to date, to protect files sought by congressional investigators into prosecutions long since closed, including some under Bill Clinton.
President Obama asserted executive privilege over the documents.
President Obama has asserted executive privilege to block the subpoena.
But, just minutes before the committee gathered to discuss the vote, Obama asserted executive privilege to withhold the documents.
Those documents included internal e-mails from 2011 over which President Obama had asserted executive privilege and which Mr. Holder had refused to provide in response to a subpoena.
