Jane Hamsher is the founder of firedoglake.com. Her work has also appeared on the Huffington Post, Alternet and The American Prospect. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, Al Jazeera, PBS and the BBC, and is the author of the best-selling book Killer Instinct. She has produced such films as Natural Born Killers and Permanent Midnight. Firedoglake is best known for its groundbreaking coverage of the Valerie Plame case and live-blogging of the Scooter Libby trial. FDL is the home of the Blue America column and Accountability Now PAC, and FDL readers helped raised more than $500,000 for progressive candidates in 2006, $250,000 for '08 candidates, and more than $500,000 to hold them accountable to the voters.