Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories President Trump asked former FBI director James Comey in February to stop investigating former national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to media reports Tuesday that cited Comey’s notes about the conversation. The news fanned allegations that the president improperly tried to stop the probe into his campaign’s ties to Russia. “I hope you can let this go,” the president told Comey, according to a New York Times report based on a memo Comey wrote immediately after his meeting. The report came as the White House was already reeling from the disclosure that Israel had reportedly provided the United States with the sensitive intelligence about an Islamic State plot, with the belief the information would be kept secret. Together the events added to the crisis atmosphere surrounding the White House. The current siege of damaging news began last week, later acknowledged in a television interview that he fired Comey because he disagreed with the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 election. The day after firing Comey, Trump met with top Russian diplomats and made the disclosure of classified material, creating another self-inflicted firestorm. The February meeting where he discussed Flynn with Comey in the Oval Office came the day after Flynn was fired. The reason given for that fi... Link to the full article to read more