From the midweek Morning Jolt:

Tuesday’s Big News: Hillary Defied Obama Requests on Preserving Records
Politics is less fun when you can see the strings. We all more or less guessed what Hillary Clinton was going to say Tuesday afternoon.
She would claim that what she did was nothing unusual, even though it was.
She was going to insist she complied with the law, even though she didn’t.
She would insist that there were no breaches of security on her servers, even though there was at least one, and without access to them there’s no way for any U.S. cyber-security official to verify her claim.
Her acolytes would go onto cable news and insist, as Hilary Rosen did, that the options were to believe everything Hillary said or believe in “conspiracy theories.”
Critics would be attacked. She unveiled her official narrative, asking others to trust her that all of her personal e-mails were entirely personal, and that she turned over everything she had to turn over. As she once said of General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker, as they made accurate reports of progress in Iraq, believing her required “a willing suspension of disbelief.”
Her staff later stated she turned over 30,490 of 62,320 emails to the State Department – 48 percent. The rest were personal and she “chose not to keep them,” which is a really soft euphemism for deleting them.
(By the way, if those really represent all of her e-mails –both incoming and outgoing — over a four-year span, that comes out to 15,580 per year, or 42 per day. Does that seem low to you? Do you receive and send more than 42 e-mails in a day? I know I do.)
Ron Fournier summarized:
Clinton said she didn’t delete any official emails, but won’t turn over the server to prove it. She said she emailed no classified information (presumably even to her husband), but won’t cough up the server to prove it. She said there were no security breaches, but won’t produce the server to prove it.
Okay, Hillary’s press conference did hold a few surprises. The fact that she dared claim “convenience” as a motive is pretty striking. The fact that somebody thought it would be a good idea for her to hold this key press conference at the United Nations is pretty interesting. The fact that it was down the hall from a tapestry of* Picasso’s Guernica was delicious:
If you’re not familiar with it, Guernica is a painting by Pablo Picasso, depicting the bombing of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 kickoff.
Perhaps one more reason we don’t see the Obama team rushing out to help save Hillary Clinton from her self-inflicted e-mail scandal:
“I’m not sure if it was caught, Wolf, because it was very noisy,” Keilar told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, describing Tuesday’s press conference over Clinton’s private e-mail account at the United Nations. “But she was asked about deleting her personal e-mails, and I yelled at her at the end, ‘When did you delete them?’ She said, ‘At the end of the process.’”
“What I take that to mean,” Keilar said, “is that once, in 2014, when she and her staff had separated her personal e-mails from her government-related e-mails and turned over her government-related e-mails, that’s when they deleted the personal e-mails . . . within the last few months, is the expectation.”
Keilar added that the deletions would’ve occurred after “red flags were raised by the Obama administration” about her private e-mail use.
This is one of those rare circumstances where the Obama administration can plausibly claim to be fighting on the side of official protocol and public disclosure.

* This post did not initially make clear it was not the original painting.