Jay Carney: I never lied to you as press secretary

“Honestly, it is not because I’m a paragon of virtue, it is because that would be a terrible way to do the job,” he said at a June 18 breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

“And what you do when you can’t say is you don’t and you take the question or you explain what you can without revealing what you can’t say,” he said.

The White House sometimes can’t reveal information, he said, because of “internal deliberations and national security issues.”