So what's NOT classified?

House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman is fuming over apparent stonewalling at the State Department in response to his inquiries surrounding corruption in the Maliki government.

The Los Angeles Democrat congressman fired off a letter this morning to Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice blasting her for an agency directive forbidding officials to discuss corruption in the Iraqi governmetn unless the committee agreed to treat all of the information as classified, and for her personal refusal to testify.

In addition, he noted that the private security firm Blackwater under scrutiny for alleged use of excessive force, informed hte panel that the State Department ordered it not to turn over documents without agency approval.

``I urge you to reconsider the unusual positions you are taking," Waxman said. "You are wrong to interfere with the Committee's inquiry."

State Department spokesman Curtis Cooper refused to comment, saying he hasn't seen Waxman's letter. But when a reporter offered to e-mail it to him, Cooper declined.

"I still won't have a response," he said.