Is it Hate or Terrorism?

""It's easy for people to be selective about the incidents and evidence they choose to fit the narrative they're putting forth," says University at Albany public administration professor Brian Nussbaum, a former intelligence analyst with the New York State office of Counterterrorism. Nussbaum sees the Orlando event as both a hate crime and a terror attack – but politicians with widely divergent bases of political support are parsing the issue."