Inside the seven tumultuous days that led to the James Comey indictment

Former FBI director James Comey walks through a corridor on the way to a secure room to continue his testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 8, 2017. J. Scott Applewhite/AP/File

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Lindsey Halligan had been on the job for just four days as US attorney when she stood before a grand jury seeking an extraordinary and unprecedented indictment of former FBI Director James Comey .

There was, of course, the grave political implications of an indictment brought forward after a president demanded retribution against his political enemies, with Comey at the top of the list.

But there also was the fact it was the political appointee Halligan alone, with no prior prosecutorial experience,