joining me to discuss all this is craig whitlock of the "washington post." craig, welcome back to the program. >> thank you. >> warner: so the situation at fort hood, what is alleged to have happened? >> well, criminal investigators from the army are looking into allegations that the sergeant committed sexual abuse involving multiple women and in one case they're looking into allegations that he may be charged with pandering. that's military crime speak for essentially organizing prostitution. so i think this is a case that not only is it bad enough and shocking enough that a sexual prevention officer was involved in this kind of crime, but i think people on capitol hill, lawmakers, are really baffled by this that someone could be placed in the kind of position that he was. >> warner: and, of course, the air force colonel last week was also in this field. but explain secretary hagel's response yesterday, even though there has been a drip-drip with these cases. why did he respond now the way he did with this new program? >> well, i think he -- the pentagon scr