Last July he held a news conference - without telling the Justice Department what he would say - to announce that the bureau had concluded Clinton did not commit a prosecutable offense. Then, 11 days before the election, Comey wrote Congress despite warnings from senior Justice officials that doing so would violate department policy and said the FBI was examining new emails that had come to light. Nothing came of the bureau's additional review, but Comey took heat for his actions, which Democrats say influenced the outcome of the election.