Notoriously, the request for the FISA court to approve surveillance of Page etc. included a footnote describing the Steele dossier. The conservatives and liberals disputed whether a footnote was sufficient notice to the court of the possible bias of the dossier.
Now Just Security has a long description of the to and fro between DOD and OMB on President Trump's withholding aid to Ukraine, which was implemented by footnotes. It seems that here DOD did read the footnotes, but it's not clear why footnotes were the appropriate vehicle for the notice from OMB to DOD--perhaps because other readers might be expected to ignore them?
I wonder: these days are budding scholars told how to use footnotes and trained to read them?
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