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Knew that the united states tortured its enemies. from international governments, many of them keeping their heads down because we understand in their allegations that many international governments including britain may have been complicent in helping the united states torture victims or helping torture from one country to another. the rendition program, outsourcing of countries who have an absolutely filthy human rights record and have torture people without fear of reprisal. we did hear from david cameron on the visit to turkey and said that torture is wrong under any circumstances. and thi...

Street and the genre action, there's mild interest, not very much what we're hearing that people are saying. where the real damning reports could come from are egypt, for example, was one of the cia's rendition program. if they are mentioned this could be embarrassing for the government and as well for their intelligence community. we haven't heard any reaction from the egyptian governments yet but we're also waiting to see what are in the details. if something is very explosive in this report, then that could -- we could see the effect of that in the street. john. >> ian lee in cairo. yes, th...

>> reporter: there's a heavy security presence outside the u.s. embassy. i talked with one of the officials earlier today. they said they weren't going to comment on it. but there are cement barriers protecting it, as well as a heavy police presence and the military close by in case anything were to happen. this report had the potential to be very embarrassing for the egyptians. they had been a longtime partner of the cia in their rendition program where they take suspects from around the world, bring them here to egypt to interrogate them. the egyptians wouldn't want their dirty laundry aired...

The military is close by in case something were to happen. >> how can the report damage the u.s. relationship with egypt? >> reporter: when we look at the cia relationship with egypt, we are talking about the rendition program where suspects are taken from round the world to egypt to be interrogated. this has been going on since the clinton days in the mid '90s. a long relationship with the u.s. government. the egyptians would not like the dirty laundry out in the open. they have a secretive intelligence community here. this could damage relations. if any country is named, egypt is likely to b...

>> reporter: when you talk about the cia's relationship with egypt, we are talking about the rendition program. this is where the cia would bring a suspect to egypt for interrogation. this process or program goes back as reports say to the '90s and the clinton administration. this's one very famous case in 2003 where an italian man omar was taken from the cia to italy to egypt. the italian prosecution charged and convicted almost two dozen cia operators in that case in 2009. a big embarrassment for the cia. >> ian, far lesser things really stir up public sentiment around the world in terms of ...