A senior U.S. intelligence official said Germany doesn’t want the U.S. to help monitor its upcoming fall election, according to a report.
German intelligence officials can monitor their elections and watch on their own for “disinformation” spread by Russia in an attempt to influence their elections, NBC News reported.
“The Germans don’t want any hint of U.S. involvement while they’re going through a very sensitive election in the fall,” said NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel. “It speaks to a larger point of the lack of trust between Germany of the U.S.”
It’s not unusual for U.S. intelligence officials to watch other European elections.
Earlier this month, Adm. Mike Rogers, director of the National Security Agency, said the U.S. watched Russia hack into France’s computer networks during the country’s election. U.S. officials warned their French counterparts of the hacking before it became public.
