Cursor's Media Patrol - 11/09/05

Seen "fuming with outrage" early in the day over Chalabi's visit, Sen. Dick Durbin later appeared stunned during a "NewsHour" debate on 'torture rules,' when a Republican colleague charged that "Durbin is the one who most recently compared our troops to the Nazis, the Soviets and their gulags, or the mad regimes of Pol Pot..." Plus: 'McCain, Israel and Torture.'

The Pentagon's classified "black budget," which USA Today reports has increased by almost 50 percent since 9/11, is called "a beautiful way to hide something" -- such as "a $23 million classified program" that "the Pentagon didn't ask for."