Dick Cheney’s chief of staff accused of mishandling national security information (a CIA employee’s name), an independent special counsel is necessary because the Bush Administration has a conflict of interest in investigating its own person.
Hillary Clinton and her staff are accused of mishandling national security information (unsecure private server), no independent special counsel is necessary because the Obama Administration is the very essence of purity and rectitude and integrity.
... and the Independent Counsel statute was allowed to lapse by both parties.