Emails Unravel DiMasi's DiNial, Develop Driscoll's

House Speaker Sal DiMasi, already caught up in a scandal over payments made to him and his staffers from a software company that obtained a state contract, has been painted a liar by the brush of the internet. DiMasi had previously claimed to have no knowledge of the contract, but the Globe has obtained emails from former Education Commissioner David Driscoll suggesting that DiMasi approved of the arrangement with software company Cognos. Driscoll's now the one in denial, claiming never to have met Cognos salesman Joseph Lally, whom he references in emails, nor to know why he had said that Cognos ranked higher than it actually did in comparison to other software vendors bidding on the contract. If only emails could jog memories.