Courtesy of the Instapundit, here's some more about the dirty trick the GOP somehow played on the Kerry campaign by distributing photos of him in a clean-suit and looking very goofy. I don't know how the GOP had anything to do with NASA releasing their own publicity photos, which are routinely taken of visiting dignitaries, but there must be some huge plot to make Kerry look like a fucking dope.
But here's something you may not have known:
NASA laywers claim the pictures might violate the Hatch Act, a federal law prohibiting campaign activities on government installations. There was apparently no objection to Kerry's campaign holding an invitation-only, town hall meeting on the federally-owned grounds of the KSC Visitor Complex.
Which is why they may have taken them down from their website, but not why they may have put them up in the first place. Now just who, besides the GOP, may have wanted to not publicize Kerry's lawbreaking? Hmmm.