Why it is not under Mueller, though it may ultimately end up that way.
"Matt Miller, the former spokesperson for the Department of Justice,
explained why the federal indictment against Butina was not filed by the
special counsel.
“If you look at the indictment … if you look at what the activities
it lays out, they are accusing her not of trying to influence the
election, but of trying to cultivate influence in the United States, of
trying to infiltrate the NRA, trying to infiltrate the Republican Party
on behalf of the Russian intelligence services,” Miller explained.
“If you read the pleading the government made public today, they talk
about her trying to trade sex in return for a position inside a special
interest group,” he noted. “You have to believe it’s a conservative
organization, maybe the NRA, maybe somewhere else — another document
talked about her trying to get close to CPAC.”
“So I think the question for all of these groups, is, ‘how were they
so vulnerable to penetration by a Russian intelligence service, by
Russian intelligence agents, and is in the only one?’” Miller wondered.
“We keep seeing, both in the Mueller investigation and now in this
case, a broad Russian conspiracy to influence and infiltrate American
policy making through Republican and conservative organizations, he
continued.
“You can’t not believe she is the only agent,” he concluded."