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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