Ben Franklin on the surveillance scandal

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15. What BS.

The papers Major Andre was carrying were intercepted in the course of a patrol. Andre was a spy. They were not intercepted just by watching everything Arnold wrote. spies in enemy territory get intercepted.

Franklin's comments to Layaette on learning about Arnold'
Passy, Mar. 14, 1781.

You mention my having enemies in America. You are luckier, for I think you have none here, nor any where. Your friends have heard of your being gone against the traitor Arnold, and are anxious to hear of your success, and that you have brought him to justice. Enclosed is a copy of a letter from his agent in England, by which the price of his treason may be nearly guessed at. Judas sold only one man, Arnold three millions; Judas got for his one man 30 pieces of silver, Arnold not a halfpenny a head. A miserable bargainer! Especially when one considers the quantity of infamy he has acquired to himself, and entailed on his family.