You may not have followed his link, but this isn't a standard case of "you didn't even read the article". By "the text", he means the actual executive order,

You may not have followed his link, but this isn't a standard case of "you didn't even read the article". By "the text", he means the actual executive order, which strangely isn't linked from Sam's piece. His frustration is that people are reading the blog post, but seem oddly disinterested in the primary source, which he feels contradicts (or at least complexifies) many of the points that Sam makes. I wonder if the discussion might be more productive if you switched the URL to the primary source: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3431228/Extreme-Vetting-EO.pdf https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3431228/Extreme-V....