You are correct of course, however, Special Counsel, Independent Counsel, what difference does it make what he is called? After all a rose by any pother name is still a rose, and Mueller is still a hack conducting an investigation under the guise of being fair. News flash, there is nothing fair about what Mueller is really up to here. He is operating in the very same fashion as the Independent Counsel’s from days gone by, and I all think we are aware that his motivation is to bring down Trump, and if he can’t accomplish that, then he will bring down others around him to make his agenda dead in the water.
Because the independent counsel law gave someone with that title much more power than a special counsel. Trump can fire Mueller, Clinton couldn’t fire Ken Starr, for instance.