Dear Friends and Supporters:

It is with great pleasure that I announce the publication of my forthcoming book, The People v. Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the Nationwide Grassroots Movement She's Encountered Along the Way," to be published by Chelsea Green in January, 2010. (For more about the book, click here)

The book is about my race for Attorney General in Vermont and the accountability movement that sprung up all around me -- and continues to grow. What unites my campaign with the movement is the premise that no one is above the law, not even a former President of the United States. Accordingly, we must hold former Bush administration officials accountable for crimes they committed while in office -- both for the sake of justice to those they wronged (e.g families of dead soldiers sent to Iraq on a lie, torture victims, dissenters caught up in surveillance sweeps) and to send a message to future occupants of the White House that crime does not pay. Only by holding these top officials accountable will we deter future leaders from acting with impunity. Our democracy, which is built on abiding by the rule of law, is at stake.

Those of you who heard the legendary prosecutor Vince Bugliosi speak about his book, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, will enjoy reading about his role in my campaign. Vince and I developed a real friendship during the campaign, beginning when he flew to Vermont in mid-September 2008 to be at my side at a press conference when I announced my candidacy. You will find many anecdotes about Vince and me, which I'm sure will endear him to you even more as he continues his own courageous campaign to bring the former president (and his closest advisors) to justice.

The People v. Bush also ventures beyond Vince's charge - that of prosecuting Bush for murder - -and considers the war crimes Bush authorized and his lawyers in the Department of Justice (the so-called "torture team") devised, in part to get false confessions from detainees linking Saddam Hussein to 9/11 in an effort to strengthen a pretext for war in Iraq.

You will read about leaders of the accountability movement in this book and discover that they have kept on protesting (often in orange jump suits and black hoods) even when the mainstream media refused to cover their actions. I honor them in this book, and in the coming days will chronicle their actions on this web page. By highlighting their actions and "bringing them together," I hope readers will be inspired by their efforts and will join in the movement. It truly represents Americans of all walks of life, people who care deeply about the fate of their country, people who desperately want to restore the democratic freedoms we lost during the past eight years, including people from all over the country who supported my campaign for attorney general in Vermont - doctors, lawyers, librarians, scientists, teachers, union representatives, factory workers, ministers, writers, farmers, the list goes on and on.

Finally, the book shows how the accountability movement has gone truly global. I'm certain that the determination of two courageous Spanish judges to pursue their own separate criminal investigation into the Bush crime syndicate had an influence on Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to appoint a special prosecutor.

Stay tuned, as we will begin to show you more about the depth and breadth of the accountability movement!

With warm thanks, and hopes for a better future.

Charlotte Dennett