Article snippet: Most popular on bostonglobe.com Based on what you've read recently, you might be interested in theses stories WASHINGTON — A story of high drama that unfolded one night during George W. Bush’s administration might prove instructive for President Trump as he considers the investigative forces he unleashed by firing FBI Director James Comey. Comey, then deputy US attorney general, was driving down Washington’s Constitution Avenue in March 2004, heading home with a security detail at about 8 p.m. His phone rang. Two top White House officials, Comey was told, were on the way to the hospital where Attorney General John Ashcroft was recovering from surgery. Their mission: persuade the bedridden Ashcroft to reauthorize a secret wiretapping and surveillance program that, in Comey’s view, was illegal. Comey, who later recounted the scene in cinematic detail during congressional testimony, quickly called an ally, a person who friends say is cut from the same cloth, a man who shares his duty-first sensibilities if not his comfort with publicity. It was Robert Mueller, the FBI director. There was no doubt he had Comey’s back. “I’ll meet you at the hospital,” Mueller told him. Mueller instructed FBI agents stationed near Ashcroft to not, under any circumstances, allow the Secret Service to remove Comey from the hospital room as the White House officials pressed their case. That pair — Andrew Card and Alberto Gonzales — arrived shortly after Comey and pushed Ashcr... Link to the full article to read more