On Sunday morning, I told you how a State Department employee attempted a little quid pro quo from the FBI in exchange for reclassifying some of Hillary Clinton’s more troublesome emails. Catherine Herridge at Fox News was the only one reporting on it at the time (bless her!), while the rest of the mainstream media were bird dogging any additional bimbo eruptions from the Trump camp.

The story has finally gotten a bit too hot for even the most reluctant reporters who are loathe to find anything untoward concerning Hillary. CNN has reported that according to notes from interviews conducted with FBI officials, Undersecretary of State Patrick Kennedy sought to have emails declassified in exchange for a quid pro quo — in this case, new stations for FBI agents in sensitive areas, most notably Iraq. One FBI records management official said that a member of the International Operations Division (IOD) “pressured” him to change an email’s classification. Another said that during a meeting “Kennedy spent the next 15 minutes debating the classification for the email and attempting to influence the FBI to change its markings.”

State Department Spokesman John Kirby fumed to CNN: “Not only is there no proof. It’s absolutely not true, a completely false allegation. It just didn’t happen that way. There was no bargain sought by the FBI. There was no bargain rendered. This was simply an inner agency conversation about the classification over one particular email. So there was no wrongdoing here.”

The FBI actually didn’t acquiesce to the quid pro quo. Good on them. But weasel Patrick Kennedy needs to resign, at the very least.

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) not only blasted Kennedy, but Hillary Clinton as well.