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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