As with just about everything else John Fraud Kerry has done in his life -- he signed on to do something and then knowingly and willfully broke the rules for his own personal advantage.
Like father -- Gigolo Dick married a rich Forbes woman -- like son -- Gigolo John married TWO rich women -- a rich Thorne woman and an even richer Mozambiquan (that is, from a communist country) woman who married to become rich!
The thing about removing the lights at the beginning probably focused everyone's attention on them. We were looking to see if they were there and not looking to see what Kerry was doing.