On: "Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order

[dragonwriter]

And those laws make them accountable in explicitly specified manner to the President, who is empowered to remove them, but only for enumerated causes.

[g-b-r → dragonwriter]

If it's so they're hardly independent agencies, and the point of this executive order is indeed to eliminate the independence.

[refurb → g-b-r]

No because "independent agency" just mean the agency was established by law, with a specific mandate and regulations that the President can't independently change.

It doesn't mean the agency isn't a part of the Executive branch with the President at it's head and it doesn't mean the President can't fire them for specific reasons.

[g-b-r → refurb]

Again, if the president can have a strong influence on them, they're not independent, however they might get called