CERL Board Emeritus James Clapper joined Anderson Cooper on CNN to discuss the downing of a “high-altitude object” on Feb. 10. According to Director Clapper:

“It would be very useful, as this situation evolves, if the administration could devise a protocol that could be explained to the Congress and the public as to what the ground rules are on when and where and under what conditions we would shoot one down or all those conditions that we would want to observe it for intelligence purposes.”

Director Clapper served from 2010 – 2017 as the Director of National Intelligence. He served in two administrations as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, where he was the principal staff assistant and advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of Defense on intelligence, counterintelligence, and security matters for the Department. He is author of the book, Facts and Fiction: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence. Read his bio here.

Watch the interview, courtesy of CNN, below.