The reference to the WSJ is a bit confusing. The piece appears in Opinion Journal, and is available to anyone who has done the free registration, here:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007584
One point that needs stressing is that the CIA evidently LEAKED the story prematurely to the MSM, and this rightly angered Czech intelligence. LeakGate, anyone?
This is what LeakGate is really about. Not Scooter Libby or Bush, but the rogues in the CIA who regularly leak to the leftist press for their own traitorous purposes.
It was because the CIA is so leaky (and otherwise undependable) that British intelligence has a direct link to the WH, according to to guests on the John Batchelor Show. The Brits gave Bush the Niger yellowcake info directly bypassing the CIA which further inflamed the CIA. Bush said in retrospect that he shouldn't have included the "16 words" in his SOTU--not because it was untrue, but because it was from an outside source.
OK, it's off thread, but linked in a way.