LNC FEC Filings Do Not Support This Claim.

Liberty for America has discovered that the Bob Barr 2008 campaign filings with the Federal Election Commission claim that on July 23, 2008 Barr 2008 received $10,000 from the Libertarian National Committee.  The Libertarian National Committee's filings covering the same month do not appear to reveal a corresponding disbursement, even though the two reports should be consistent. A search of earlier LNC FEC filings has not yet located an LNC payment made in an earlier month.

Indeed, the confidential LNC Financial reports from the LNC Treasurer to the National Committee, as received by Liberty for America magazine, claim that in 2008 the LNC spent a total of $500 on candidate support.  It is inobvious how LNC, Inc. could have given $10,000 to the Barr 2008 campaign without it being candidate support, which is a specific line item in the LNC budget.

Members of the LNC with whom Liberty for America has been in contact were entirely unaware of the alleged financial transaction.  Indeed, the impression your Editor has received from members of the LNC was that the National Committee had instructed that LNC, Inc. was not to make a financial contribution to the Barr campaign.