Washington’s political class has waited months for the moment: the delivery of the “Mueller Report.” Like Donald Trump’s “wall,” the phrase “Mueller Report” has meant a thousand different things to different readers and commentators. To follow the cable news, you may have gotten the impression that special counsel Robert Mueller was going to publicly release the full findings of his investigation.

That’s basically what we got when independent counsel Ken Starr released the findings of his investigations into Bill Clinton’s lechery, perjury, and abuse of power, but the current law governing the special counsel is different from the old law governing the independent counsel.