title: us lost cause north korea policy to be reviewed
text: washington free beacon october   
  senior white house officials blocked the navy from conducting needed freedom of navigation operations in the south china sea amid growing concerns that china is militarizing newly reclaimed islands according to the pentagons defense policy board 
  a working paper produced in september  by john hamre the policy board chairman called for an immediate resumption of navy warship passages to prevent china from taking over the strategic southeast asian waterway 
  the internal document was disclosed monday by wikileaks as part of its latest batch of hacked emails from the account of john podesta campaign chairman for democratic presidential nominee hillary clinton the obama administration has accused russias seniormost officials of hacking and leaking the emails posted to wikileaks and other sites in order to influence the  election 
  the document was labeled chairmans working notes of the defense policy board  chinese islandbuilding in the south china sea it was sent to jake sullivan the clinton campaigns senior policy adviser by stuart eizenstat a defense policy board member who was advising the campaign on internal pentagon deliberations this article was posted wednesday october   at  am share this article