Skeptical U.S. Rebuffs Mexico’s Request for Aid in Spyware Inquiry<br />20, 2018<br />MEXICO CITY — American officials have rebuffed repeated requests from Mexico to help investigate the use of government spying technology against innocent civilians, wary<br />that Mexico wants to use the United States as cover in a sham inquiry, senior American officials say.<br />But after reviewing the request, American officials decided not to get involved, leery<br />that the Mexican government had little interest in actually solving the case because a serious investigation might implicate some of its most powerful figures, senior American officials said.<br />Prosecutors handling the case have yet to question any of the officials responsible for operating<br />the surveillance technology, according to the victims’ lawyers and their review of the case file.<br />Prosecutors have for now also declined to examine the servers used by the officials<br />who operated the spying technology, according to the case files and the lawyers.<br />But investigators have not even identified the government employees who operate the technology, or visited the offices where<br />the spying operation was conducted, according to interviews with the victims and their lawyers and the the case files.<br />But more than six months after the investigation was announced, some of the American concerns appear to be bearing out, according to victims of the spying<br />and their lawyers, who have had access to the case files.
