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JOHN CAMPANELLI - It sounded like quite a meeting. According to the Wall Street Journal, representatives from Apple Inc., including the company's general counsel, sat down Oct. 1 with Deputy Attorney General James Cole and other Justice Department officials to discuss data encryption. The meeting came less than a month after Apple had announced that its new iPhone 6 operating system would make it impossible for law enforcement officials to pull data off a locked phone.(Before the announcement, Apple had