Petraeus to testify tomorrow

David Petraeus’ extra­mar­i­tal affair ended months ago. But it con­tin­ues to make waves in Wash­ing­ton this week, as sus­pi­cions rip­ple through law­maker ranks about the tim­ing of its rev­e­la­tion and the resigned CIA chief’s coin­cid­ing sched­uled tes­ti­mony into the Sep­tem­ber 11 attack on the U.S. Con­sulate in Beng­hazi, Libya.

Petraeus will vol­un­tar­ily address ques­tions Fri­day before the House Intel­li­gence Committee.

In addi­tion, the chain of fiery e-mails that led the FBI to dis­cover the sex­ual indis­cre­tion has caused col­lat­eral dam­age, putting the immi­nent nom­i­na­tion of Gen. John Allen to the high­est ech­e­lons of mil­i­tary com­mand on hold, until the nature of his e-mail exchange with a mil­i­tary “socialite” and his rela­tion­ship with her have been clarified.

Petraeus, 60, has not been fol­low­ing the media firestorm over the extra­mar­i­tal affair that led to his resignation.