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Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich speaks to reporters on Dec. 7, 2011, as his wife, Patti, listens, at the federal building in Chicago. | AP Photo Suit seeks report on Obama interview in Blagojevich probe

A lawsuit filed Monday demands public release of records of an interview President-elect Barack Obama did more than seven years ago with FBI agents and federal prosecutors pursuing a bribery probe into efforts by Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) to sell the U.S. Senate seat Obama was vacating.

The conservative group Judicial Watch is also seeking so-called FBI 302 reports on interviews Obama Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and former White House Chief of Staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel gave during the Blagojevich investigation. The organization sought the reports under the Freedom of Information Act in 2012, but the FBI said at the time that the records could not be released because of ongoing enforcement proceedings.

That appeared to be a reference to the criminal prosecution of Blagojevich on corruption-related charges. A trial in 2010 resulted in a hung jury on most charges but a conviction on one count of lying to the FBI. The former governor was convicted on an additional 17 counts at a retrial the following year.

Before each trial, Blagojevich's lawyers demanded access to the notes of an interview Obama gave investigators for two hours in December 2008, but a judge rejected both requests.

Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Washington on the same day the Supreme Court announced it had turned down Blagojevich's petition to review his convictions.

Last year, a federal appeals court overturned five of the 18 counts Blagojevich was convicted on, but left in place the 13 others.

The suit filed Monday says the enforcement proceedings have ended as a result of the Supreme Court action. Technically, Blagojevich is subject to re-sentencing and even the possibility of re-trial on the five counts the 7th Circuit overturned. However, a retrial is considered unlikely and his new sentence is not expected to be much different than the 14-year term he is already serving.

Separately Monday, Judicial Watch filed another FOIA suit seeking records of how the Justice Department handled a FOIA request Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed in 2012 seeking access to records on email addresses used by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

A State Department inspector general report released in January of this year said the agency mishandled that request when it prepared a response to CREW saying no records could be found regarding Clinton's email addresses. In fact, dozens of State Department employees were aware that Clinton routinely used a private, clintonemail.com address for work-related correspondence.

Curiously, CREW never received a response to its request, one of many the watchdog group sent to various agencies seeking information on pseudonymous email accounts used by senior government officials.

CREW seems unlikely to follow up on its request. In 2014, new leadership was installed at the nonprofit group, bringing it into a constellation of pro-Clinton liberal organizations.