FBI Locks Down Pilot Flying J Headquarters

Knoxville News Sentinel ^ | 04/15/13 | Carly Harrington

[TennesseeGirl]

KNOXVILLE — The FBI has Pilot Flying headquarters on lockdown Monday afternoon.

[TennesseeGirl]

Breaking news. FBI turns away media so we don't have much info, yet. Gov. Haslam's family owns Pilot/Flying J. His brother, Jimmy, owns the Cleveland Brown's. Linky: http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2013/apr/15/fbi-locks-down-pilot-headquarters/

[LRoggy]

Isn’t Pilot the company with the turnpike gas stations that are installing the natural gas pumps?

[Da Coyote]

They probably didn’t endorse gay marriage.

[SeminoleCounty]

Not sure about turnpike locations.....but they are the largest truck/travel stop chain in the US...with some locations in Canada. They bought Flying J a few yrs ago after J went bankrupt

[Celtic Conservative]

The same day the finish line of the Boston marathon gets blown up?

WTF?

[newheart]

The same day the finish line of the Boston marathon gets blown up?

Yep. And it also snowed in Wyoming today. These things are obviously connected.

[rockinqsranch]

A major nationwide trucking support company locked down by the FBI. What could be wrong? Probably didn’t give enough money to the Democrats.

[JouleZ]

I believe the Haslams are muslims.

[Nachum]

Yep. And it also snowed in Wyoming today. These things are obviously connected.

Oh yes, you are correct. A terror attack and an outfit that finds flying jobs for pilots. Nothing to see here.

[newheart]

Nachum, Nachum, Nachum, my FRiend. You do know that the Flying J is a chain of truck stops, right? (I’m guessing that you do, but we can keep that to ourselves. ;-)

[Nachum]

Really? I stand corrected! Ha. Well, I guess my children are right. I am NOT perfect. -They probably call me a bunch of other stuff, just not to my face.

[OneWingedShark]

You do know that the Flying J is a chain of truck stops, right?

Oh, come on... if it was truck stops it’d be the Stop Truckin’ J.
;)

[Cyber Liberty]

I used to have a kid (not any more), and you wouldn’t believe the stuff he said about me behind my back....

[newheart]

Oh, come on... if it was truck stops it’d be the Stop Truckin’ J.

Nah, it'd be the Keep on Truckin' J. (But don't worry. No matter what they may think, we are still smarter than our kids.)

[Nachum]

Oh, come on... if it was truck stops it’d be the Stop Truckin’ J. ;)

Oh, I want to fully embrace the tin foil hat section of my brain. It makes life much more pleasant ~

[bert]

Yes..... in joint venture with T Boone Pickens on major interstates to service big rigs

[cva66snipe]

Paint me a Tin Foiler but kinda odd to say the least the timing in relation to Governor Haslam {Haslam’s own Pilot} not signing on to the Obamacare Medicaid expansion.

[OneWingedShark]

Oh, I want to fully embrace the tin foil hat section of my brain. It makes life much more pleasant ~

Heck, with the 'interesting times' we're in the "tin-foil hat" seems pretty dang rational -- I mean what would you have said to the idea that the government would traffic firearms to people engaging in terrorist-style tactics in what likely was an effort against our own citizen's liberties? Or that it would consistently refuse all inquiries into the legitimacy of the President? Or that it would declare that one must purchase a particular item? Or that Habeus Corpus would be 'repealed'? Or that there would be serious talk of full firearm registration at the federal level?

The world makes far more sense from under the hat of tin-foil, or through the glasses of cynicism.

[Robert DeLong]

They may be, but I really doubt it. Thisis a picture of Gov. & his wife.

[bgill]

It seems to be IRS related. There was a recent shuffle of higher ups and a new CEO brought in from outside the family.