This made ZERO sense to me when announced. Take the guy that did the original investigation and came up with the sweetheart deal that a Federal judge kicked out, and make him the special counsel. Then act like everything is above board and there is nothing hinckey going on.
When it's all over for the second time, Congress will get involved again and we all know everything is kosher over there, there will be a larger investigation into the investigators and their supervisors and more time and money will be lost.
Then in the end, Hunter will commit suicide in some mysterious way that isn't possible for a human and Hillary will have her bird eating cat grin on.