Taking rmac's point, I wonder what the USG's reaction would have been if Mr Turner had been a US citizen and another country's border police had behaved in such a way!
Read somewhere today that a law has been passed in the US which now gives border police the ability to take laptops, PDAs, mobiles etc from anyone entering the country, without a search warrant or any real evidence of wrongdoing.
Are we starting to see (even more) paranoia in action...............