June 23, 2007 (LPAC)--As we reported by LPAC yesterday (see earlier article here ), Vice President Dick Cheney is refusing to comply with an executive order governing the handling of classified material. In a June 21 letter to Cheney protesting his office's refusal to accept oversight, House Oversight Committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) pointed out that Cheney's office "may have the worst record in the executive branch for safeguarding classified information." Waxman cites three examples to make his case: the conviction of Cheney's former chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice and false statements in disclosing the identity of a covert CIA agent; the leaking of the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's supposed efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction, reportedly at Cheney's instruction; and the passing of classified information from Cheney's office, by a former official there, to plotters trying to overthrow Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. "Given this record," Waxman writes, "serious questions can be raised about both the legality and the advisability of exempting your office from the rules that apply to all other executive branch officials."