Late Afternoon

++Sgt. Bergdahl is en route and will land in Texas tomorrow where it is planned that he will meet his parents.

++The Daily Beast through contacts with the Taliban obtained the texts of the two letters Bergdahl sent home from captivity, one of which pleads for understanding of the circumstances around him leaving his camp.

++Journals sent home to a woman friend reveal that three days before he left the post, he was thinking of "Going Galt".

++Meanwhile planeloads of Americans are leaving Iraq. 3 planes of security contractors have been loaded up as the ISIS is heading toward Baghdad.

++The American embassy has drawn up evacuation planes as mortars are hitting the outskirts of town.

++John McCain and, if course, Jennifer Rubin blame Obama for the collapse of Iraq. Fred Kaplan in Salon says blame it on Prime Minister Malicki.

++The American trained Iraqi army stripped off their uniforms and left their equipment as ISIS overran Mosul and Takrit.

++ISIS now is considered the richest terrorist group as they stole $425 million.

++Kurdish forces took oil-rich Kirkuk.

++There are rumors that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard has been fighting on the ground and has taken half Takrit back.

++The Iraqi government has asked the United States for assistance in the form of drone attacks.

++President Obama said that all options are being considered short of troops on the ground.

++The atmosphere is similar to the days that led to the collapse of Saigon.

++Barbara Boxer says that the people who once advocated for the invasion of Iraq have now become the "Blame America First" Crowd.

Swimming in the Swamp

++The Chief Prosecutor at Gitmo didn't recognize the names of the Taliban traded because they didn't make the list for prosecution. John McCain , who was for the prisoner release before he was against it,said that he won't have traded for these prisoners because they were involved in 9-11, which they were not.

++Judge Mukasy, the Attorney-General who followed Fredo Gonzalez, said that President Obama broke the notification law and should be impeached. He said that you really don't need a cause to impeach a President.

++Juan Williams said the pundits should just shut up and he described the Republicans who are against the deal as craven the way they changed.

++Senator Levin's office produced a statement that President Obama did inform the Senate on December,201e that he was going to use his power as commander in chief to do a prisoner swap for Sgt.Bergdahl.

++This morning further reports on Sgt.Bergdahl's condition showed he was tortured during captivity. He also has decided not to talk to his family yet.

++Fox News claims Sgt.Bergdahl converted to Islam during captivity. Their own journalists captured in Gaza actually converted to Islam during their captivity.

++Ollie North claims that Obama originally was going to pay $1 million to the Haggani network but upped the ransom to $5million. Ollie was unclear about who paid--whether the Qataris or oil companies.

++On Friday, Rachel Maddow was mean. She showed that John McCain didn't stay in the Bergdahl briefing because "I don't learn much at them".