A.M. Links: Obama Optimistic About GOP ‘Progress’ on Immigration, Ukrainian Activist Claims He Was Abducted and Tortured, State Department Expected To Release Keystone XL Report

• The NSA has refused a
  Freedom of Information Act request filed by a transparency
  activist related to the agency’s talking points put together in the
  wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations.
• A
  Ukrainian opposition activist claims that he was abducted and
  tortured before being left out in the cold to die.
• President Barack Obama is optimistic about “progress” in the
  GOP when it comes to
  immigration reform, but has not said whether he would sign an
  immigration bill that does not include a pathway to
  citizenship.
• The State Department is expected to release an environmental
  report on the
  Keystone XL pipeline “soon.”
• According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, almost
  
  1,900 people have been killed in Syria since peace talks in
  Switzerland began.
• Toronto Mayor
  Rob Ford has been accused of ordering a jail beating.

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