[The Soup Nazi]

Originally Posted by The Soup Nazi

Robert Mueller, Former FBI Director, Is Named Special Counsel for Russia Investigation

Good article (I think; I'm not a damn lawyer) on the relevance of this clusterfuckery's terminology:

Special counsel, special prosecutor: What's the difference?

Key bit:

"Prosecutors are not journalists, and their job is not to inform the public of the results of their investigations," Zeidenberg wrote. "Rather, their mission is to gather all of the relevant facts and determine whether a crime was committed and, if so, whether it can be proved in court beyond a reasonable doubt. Their work, when done properly, is done in secret."

That means that if critical evidence was found in the case but it was in, say, Russia and therefore unobtainable, "then it would be improper to seek an indictment. Critically, the entire investigation would then remain secret. It would be a violation of law for a prosecutor to make public the results of a grand jury investigation that did not result in an indictment."

So we sure as shit still need the Post and the Times...