Law enforcement expert refutes his characterization in Ron Paul Political Report

The conversation on Ron Paul's newsletters is getting a bit crowded, with aforementioned reporting done by the Washington Post citing former RP newsletter staffers saying that Paul was very much involved with the creation of his newsletters and that if he didn't write the "bad stuff," he certainly signed off on it.

While reading the June 1990 PDF of the Ron Paul Political Report, I noticed a passage about "race war." These were ubiquitous in Paul's newsletters both before and after the L.A. riots sparked by the controversial Rodney King beating verdict. But this one was a bit unique in that it cited a source.

On page 2, the newsletter starkly stated:

"Veteran FBI agent William L. Tafoya says we are headed for race war."

So I looked up William Tafoya. As it turns out, he's made a career of looking to the horizon of issues facing law enforcement, often projecting current trends in technology and politics into the future. So I was wondering whether this seemingly well-regarded law enforcement professional had really said the United States was "headed for race war."

Here's the e-mail I sent him: