“My researched suspicion around motive was the DOJ needed to protect evidence Mueller had already extracted from fraudulent FISA authority. That was the motive.

In July 2018 if the DOJ-NSD admitted the FISA application and all renewals [were] fatally flawed Robert Mueller would have needed to withdraw any evidence gathered as a result of its exploitation. The DOJ in 2018, under the leadership of Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein for all things Russiagate, was protecting Mueller’s poisoned fruit.

If the DOJ had been honest with the court, there’s a strong possibility some, perhaps much, of Mueller evidence gathering would have been invalidated… and cases were pending. The solution: mislead the court and claim the predication was still valid.”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/08/07/outline-1-criminal-conduct-by-doj-fbi-during-russiagate/

(only for masochists, but note the granular detail and documentation)