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This is a very good question, and the short answer is that we just don't know. I'll be curious whether @PreetBharara agrees with me on this but here's my sense of it.
The most logical explanation for wrapping things up with a lot of loose ends is that Mueller...
The most logical explanation for wrapping things up with a lot of loose ends is that Mueller...
...has construed his role very narrowly. Everything that does not need to be handled by the SCO is being kicked back to DOJ. The most dramatic example of this is Corsi, where OSC engaged in a plea negotiation but appears to have not followed through on an indictment threat.
Mueller has been behaving this way for a while: Even cases of Russian interference in electoral matters like Butina and Khusyanova have gone back to DOJ. And electoral matters like Cohen have been referred elsewhere as well. So have FARA matters like the Manafort spinoff cases.
So I think the most obvious explanation is that Muellet is just being disciplined. But that, in turn, raises another question: Is he being disciplined because his job is X, not Y? Or is he being disciplined because he feels a great urgency about resolving X and reporting on it?
Or both?
We don't know the answer to that question and won't until we read the report.
