Presidents, Power, And A People's Attorney: Carolyn Baker Interviews Charlotte Dennett

  Jan. 11, 2009 (Truth To Power) -- In early December, 2008 I drove to the home of Charlotte Dennett in rural Vermont to speak with her not only about her recent run for Attorney General of the State of Vermont, but also about Thy Will Be Done, a book she and her husband, Gerard Colby, published in 1995 -- a book extremely relevant to the most recent, and in fact all, recent American presidential elections.

  I wanted to find out what motivated her to run for Attorney General of Vermont with the promise that if she were elected, she would appoint Vince Bugliosi, author of The Prosecution of George W. Bush For Murder, as special prosecutor to charge the lame duck President with murder, and also, to learn more about her and Colby's research and how they became involved in the project.

  I discovered that Charlotte Dennett was born into an intelligence family, but that her father was killed when she was 15. He was stationed in Beirut where Charlotte was born, and his last mission was to Saudi Arabia where he was sent to figure out the trans-Arabian oil pipeline that was going to carry a fantastic amount of oil from Saudi Arabia to an undetermined point on the Mediterranean. It was either going to be in Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, or Syria. He got on a plane to Ethiopia on the way back to Beirut, and the plane crashed with several other intelligence individuals on board, and all were killed. Following the tragedy, Charlotte's mother returned to the states where Charlotte grew up in Winchester, Massachusetts. She believes there was definitely foul play in relation to her father's death, and her forthcoming book is an expose of the events surrounding it.

  In her junior year of high school, Charlotte returned to Beirut with her mother and finished high school there. In the process, she became thoroughly immersed in Middle Eastern politics. In Beirut she had access to books and other information about the Middle East which most Americans do not have, and as a result, developed a more balanced view of it-a view that has affected her all of her life.

  She returned to the U.S. to attend a small college in Massachusetts where she majored in art history then completed her Masters in Italy. Yet despite her passion for the arts and travel abroad, Charlotte has never stopped being interested in politics and wrote her Masters thesis on Cosimo de Medici, the great Florentine politician of the Renaissance.

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