based on your experience it s a move mueller would, indeed, make? that s a great question. i spent 24 of my 30 years prosecuting right here in d.c. i have a little inside baseball when it comes to sealed indictments being filed in the d.c. courts. ordinarily what happens is there are two reasons that prosecutors might file an indictment under seal. the most routine reason is, let s assume we indictme a narcotics conspiracy and there are five defendants. we file it under seal so we don t alert any five defendants they re now being criminally charged. law enforcement will put in place five separate arrest teams so they can go out and simultaneously, as best they can, arrest all five people. then they ll unseal the indictment. that is the most ordinary reason that prosecutors will seal indictments. the other reason is because bob mueller may have been steadily returning indictments but he