Watchdog group seeks Obama paper trail

WASHINGTON, March 27 (UPI) -- The head of a prominent watchdog group says Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama apparently intended "no paper trail" from his Illinois Senate years.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said he believes Obama has a "records problem" judging from Fitton's inability to see records from Obama's time in the Illinois state Senate. Obama served in the state Senate from 1997 to 2004, when he ran for the U.S. Senate after an unsuccessful run for a U.S. House seat in 2000.

He said no one knows where the records are "if they exist at all."

"The more we learn about the Illinois senator," Fitton told The Hill publication, "the more obvious it becomes that he is anything but the ethically upright outsider he purports to be."

However, the Obama campaign said the senator's political records are available and accessible.