In Camera, Ex Parte Declaration of Lieutenant General Keith B. Alexander, Director, National Security Agency

Document Date: May 12, 2006
Release Date: May 6, 2014
Agency: Government
Document Type: Internal NSA Documents/Presentations
Records Collected: Telephony Metadata, Internet Metadata, Telephone Content

This document was written to "support th assertion of a formal claim of the military and state secrets privilege (hereafter "state secrets privilege") by the Director of National Intelligence… as the head of the intelligence community." There is also an assertion of "statutory privilege with respect to information about NSA activities."