system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: They day he leaves office, a former US President still knows many secrets. Is his lifelong security team responsible for protecting the man or the secrets?
gpt
The person. There are countless number of people who are aware of countless number numbers of highly classified and secretive information. 

The Secretaries of Defense and State are likely to know almost as much information as the President, but they don't get lifetime protection.