Arguing that the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups stemmed from the agency’s headquarters in Washington, House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) blasted White House press secretary Jay Carney on Sunday, calling the spokesman a “paid liar.”
“And the administration is still — their paid liar, their spokesperson, picture behind —he’s still making up things about what happened and calling this local rogue,” Issa said of Carney during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
When host Candy Crowley contended that Issa’s evidence for the claim is “totally not definitive,” the California Republican said “we’re getting to proving it.”
“The reason Lois Lerner tried to take the Fifth is not because there’s a rogue in Cincinnati, it’s because this was a problem coordinated in all likelihood right out of Washington headquarters and we’re getting to proving it,” Issa said.