NSA denies report it eavesdropped on Vatican

In the article the author claims that the NSA tapped the phone calls to and from the Vatican from late December 2012 to early January 2013. "The calls were reportedly categorized in four groups: leadership intentions, threats to the financial system, foreign policy objectives and human rights. "The warrant of the Vatican is that no one should have their privacy infringed on this much. The rebuttal made by the NSA was simple; they sent out their national spokesman to make a statement, all he did was deny the allegations. The claims made in this article are tricky because it is unknown if they are fact claims, because each side has an opposite claim. However there are definitely a few value claims in their, for example the end when a director defended secret surveillance. Policy claims are also tricky in this one. The only one that i see that could be a policy claim is when supporters of the NSA are calling for close examination of the white house. The ethos of this article is not really in question, even though they do not state who the author is. Fox News is a news station that is criticized often, but is also famous worldwide and considered a leader in the news world.