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A high-level group in the White House is stonewalling attempts by a government watchdog to obtain records about the Obama administrations so-called unmasking of people on President Trumps campaign and transition teams, according to Judicial Watch.

The government watchdog group told Fox News that the National Security Council, a White House group that advises the president on national security matters and foreign affairs, responded in a May 23 letter that the records have been transferred to President Obamas as-yet-unopened library in Chicago and wont be available to the public for five years.

Judicial Watchs efforts to obtain these documents comes as Fox News broke a story in April regarding National Security Council Adviser Susan Rice being among Obama appointees who during the last presidential election, asked for identities of U.S. citizens linked to the Trump campaign and transition teams who were caught up in U.S. intelligencesurveillance.

Disclosure of thenames of American citizensidentified in the course ofintelligence collection activities is known as unmasking.

Rices personal involvement in unmasking the identities of U.S. persons from [U.S. intelligence] collection activities is extraordinarily unusual and smacks of an unlawful domestic political intelligence operation being run out of the Obama White House, Chris Farrell, director of research and investigation for Judicial Watch, told Fox News.

The president, Congress and law enforcement can gain access to the records. Judicial Watch will fight for them, too.

The secrecy around these materials also is raising hackles for other reasons.

"Itcosts taxpayers over $100 million a year to support presidential libraries thatcan take as long as 100 years to release archival material on how a presidentreallygoverned, said John Fund, former Fox News contributor, and authorof Fraudstersand Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk and Stealing Elections: How Voter FraudThreatens Our Democracy.

He added: Outrageous. Thisrepresentsa bad deal for taxpayers, awhitewashingof the historical record and a playpen for the politicallyconnected boosters of an ex-president. Reform is urgently needed."

Malia Zimmerman is an award-winning investigative reporter focusing on crime, homeland security, illegal immigration crime, terrorism and political corruption. Follow her on twitter at @MaliaMZimmerman

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