The term “White House” is being referred to as; “The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States” by Carney.
There is no way a building can be “aware” of anything.
Of course, this in turn beggars the question - exactly what kind of Adminstration creates a chain of communication (or lack thereof) where his Attorney General does not tell him that the CIA Director is now in a severely compromised position? Basically that is Carney's attempted defense - that the Obama Admin is so grossly incompetent that such a situation happened.
Which goes to show just how damning the underlying truth here could be, given they would even attempt such a gambit in the first place.