As if interns hadn't gotten enough bad press in recent years, along comes the Center for Constitutional Rights to make things worse. CCR, a non-profit legal group committed to the "creative use of law as a positive force for social change," has now established the Isabel and Alger Hiss Internship Program, honoring the man who famously made creative use of spying for social change.
The internship is being funded by the estate of Isabel Johnson Hiss, Alger's second wife. The new Hiss interns will asist CCR attorneys "working on government misconduct cases," since, as the Center's press release informs us, Alger Hiss, Stalin's man in Washington, was the victim of "one of the more infamous cases of governmental misconduct in the 20th century."