Smithsonian covers up Hillary and Bush nudes

CONTROVERSIAL nude pictures of Hillary Clinton, George Bush, Meryl Streep and Sleepless In Seattle director Nora Ephron have been put under wraps and could be destroyed.

The prestigious Smithsonian Institution in New Haven, Connecticut, cut off all access to the pictures, which were taken when the subjects were students at top universities.

'There are the rights of the subjects to consider,' said Hdiko DeAngelis, assistant general counsel at the Smithsonian.

'We sealed the entire collection.' The full-frontal and side-view photos were taken at first to study posture and later to investigate links between body shape and intelligence, later dismissed as spurious.

All new students at some of the colleges were forced to strip for the camera, starting from the beginning of the century.

The pictures have been on view for students and researchers, not the general public, but have now been withdrawn altogether.