"Odd because from what I've been reading the US is by far the worst country to bring electronics into... They clone your phone, view the images on your camera, and clone your laptop... Land of the free indeed. "

"If you enter the US with a notebook which has a crypted hard drive (pretty much the standard in every company with an IT dept.) they'll force you to hand them over the password, and examine the disk, without you actually beeing able to control them.

You mean on appx 1000 people of the approximately 360 million which enter the country each year?