The American president, as head of the executive branch of government, has the ultimate authority to classify or release information and documents. Everyone below him acts on what is ultimately his responsibility and permission. This was the error the Justice Department made in raiding his formally approved storage lock-up for the copies of documents he chose to keep there. In contrast, for the two decades Joe Biden kept classified documents in open bins in his unlocked garage as a US senator and vice president, he did not have the statutory right to do so. As prime minister and chief executive of the Israeli government, doesn’t Bibi Netanyahu have the right to see anything produced by government functionaries, even if they are cranky generals who don’t like him even a little bit?