phillipos is under strict house arrest allowed to leave his home to meet with lawyers and true emergencies. he has been charged with lying to investigators. an air force officer in charge of preventing sexual assault has been charged with sexual battery. the case now under investigation. and this morning there is outrage from the highest levels at the pentagon. abc s chief investigative correspondent brian ross has more. reporter: the arrest comes amid growing concern about top ranks in the military and air force failing to do enough to prevent thousands of alleged rapes and sexual abuse cases over the last few years. this is lieutenant colonel jeff crusinski reporter: the air force officer arrested this weekend on sexual battery charges. the lieutenant colonel jeff krusinski, actually runs the sexual assault prevention and response office of the air force. an arlington county police report identified krusinski, as a drunken male subject who
taking a leading role on speaking out about both women and men in the armed forces who have been raped and sexually assaulted. first your reaction to this arrest. i was sick to my stomach when i heard about it. what does this say about the air force that their best and brightest, the person they put in the pentagon as a lieutenant colonel to run the sexual assault prevention and training office is someone who doesn t get it. someone who in the end will sexually assault someone in the civilian world and get charged with a sexual assault. i wonder what would have happened had it happened within the military? the pentagon released a statement saying, secretary hagel has expressed as you did, outrage and disgust over these troubling allegations and emphasize that s this matter will be dealt with swiftly and decisively. you ve been on the forefront, the leading role in speaking out against these sexual assaults and the culture, if you will,
opportunity to note the person we mentioned, lieutenant colonel, is just accused at this point, he s been arrested, but innocent until proven guilty. i want to read a statement. this came up quite a bit in his confirmation hearing. i m committed to implementing measures that bring about tangible change in real results. addressing the problem of sexual assault will remain a top priority to the department s leaders for as long as this crime continues to hurt our people and weaken the force. he s proposed what we re calling a back end reform to the criminal justice system. it was some response to the wilkerson case in which the conviction was overturned of a convicted sexual offender, which was shocking enough, this was a couple of months ago. we need front end reform as well. we need trained attorneys, impartial attorneys and judges overseeing the entire criminal justice system. commanding officers still have oversight of the entire
0 house s conversations as they watch israel undertake these two strikes this weekend, which there had been one previously in january, so this is not exactly completely new, but it does look like an escalation and the syrian response has been escalated. what are those conversations in the white house like? well, just the israeli strikes, in a way they re not about syria as much as they are about lebanon, about hezbollah, the big arm group which sits on the israeli border. syria is the transit point for all the weapons that hezbollah gets from iran. so israel is rightly concerned and they have been concerned for years now as everybody gets ready for that war between israel and lebanon, they re concerned about the kinds of weapons that hezbollah is getting. and so they re just taking care of business. it is basically what they do. they are taking care of business in a way that means air strikes in another country, which, again, if the shoe were on the other foot, if we were setting a
0 officials believe iran has already been doing. but the fact they re now willing to go public is an important sign of the potential for this conflict to continue to spread. in another sign of the conflict s potential to expand, even bizarrely made it its way on to social media today, as syrian hackers supported the government forces reportedly took over the onion s twitter account briefly, resulting in tweets which have been deleted were weird and offensive. here is one example, u.n. retracts report of syrian chemical weapon use, lab tests confirm it is jihadi body odor. as the syrian conflict expands and seems poised to spread across the borders, the internal political pressure on president obama to do something, to get involved, to intervene in some way, is growing in a very, very palpable way. the whole situation is becoming more and more expansive and unfortunately the red line that the president of the united states written was apparently written in disappearing ink. the obama