FLASHBACK : in 2014 John Kerry said ISIS was committing genocide against Christians, today he says it needs to be evaluated further? Which is it?

Secretary of State John Kerry warned in a statement issued on Aug. 7, 2014 that the Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (ISIL) was conducting a “campaign of terror” against Yezidi and Christian minorities and engaging in “targeted acts of violence” that he said “bear all the warning signs and hallmarks of genocide.” -- “ISIL’s campaign of terror against the innocent, including Yezidi and Christian minorities, and its grotesque and targeted acts of violence bear all the warning signs and hallmarks of genocide,” Kerry said in the 2014 statement posted on the State Department website. “For anyone who needed a wake-up call, this is it.” Language included in the omnibus spending bill that President Barack Obama signed in December 2015 requires Kerry by March 17 to declare whether ISIL’s attacks against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East “constitute mass atrocities or genocide.”

Despite his statement in 2014, Kerry has not yet done so. Testifying before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on the Department of State on Feb. 24, Kerry said he was having an “additional evaluation” done to help him now determine whether ISIL’s systematic slaughter of Christians and other religious minorities should be declared “genocide.” -- “I will make a decision on it as soon as I have that additional evaluation and we will proceed forward from there,” Kerry said then. The House of Representatives is planning to vote tonight on H. Con. Res. 75, which declares that “the atrocities perpetrated by ISIL against Christians, Yezidis, and other religious and ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.”

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R.-Neb.), the sponsor of the resolution, said in a statement on Friday:“When ISIS systematically targets Christians, Yezidis, and other ethnic and religious minorities for extermination, this is not only a grave injustice—it is a threat to civilization itself. We must call the violence by its proper name: genocide.”