I had a great deal of time on my hands over the past four days, and have come to the following conclusions. I thought I'd share them with this body of truthers for comment or debate. My thesis is this: If you allow Controlled Demolition, you must ascribe to MIHOP, all the way. The basis for this theory is as follows. If you were an "agent of LIHOP", and you knew that on a certain date a certain action was to take place, your actions would most likely be engineered to improve the shock value and/or believability of said action or event. In the case of September 11, as this agent of LIHOP, your intelligence would indicate that several hijacked airliners would be used as weapons against certain important civilian and military establishments. Your mission would be to increase the visbility of, the impact of, or the credibilty of said events. Possibly also the successful execution of said events.

The problem with LIHOP in the case of controlled demolition of the WTC towers is that too much would be left to chance for this to be a believable scenario. I guess I should step back for just a moment and explain where I stand on the whole CD issue. There were far too many laws of physics broken, far too many forensic clues in the evidence, and far too many video, audio, seismic and witness testimonies of the explosions for me to be any where else on this issue. Add to that the avenues for placement of the explosives created by the power downs on the towers, the stonewalling by the Bush administration of the investigations, the unprecedented collapse of three steel frame buildings in one 12 hour period, and the ridiculous 9.11 omission and NIST studies , I just can't be elsewhere on this debate.

So, back to the LIHOP hurdle. If your intelligence lead you to ALL of the planned events for this day, you might have the means to improve the shock value of said event. CD would do that, certainly. Unfortunately, it has problematically decreased the believabilty of this event, by virtue of all of the aforementioned problems with reconciling the "collapse" with the evidence. Now, here is where I really think it makes sense. There are way too many variables in play for LIHOP and CD. You've got multiple hijackers that have to:

Arrive at the airport on time. Check into a flight on time. Make it through screening, carrying weapons. (yes, I know we allowed knives back then, but work with me on this). Make it on to a flight that isn't delayed or cancelled or overbooked or mechanically compromised, or delayed by any other flight that was any of the above. Gain complete control of the flight attendants and passengers whilst murdering one or several of them. Gain access to the cockpit, overpowering pilots that have a mandate to retain control of the aircraft at all costs. Overpowering pilots who were mostly of a military background. Assume control of a highly complex aircraft in mid-flight, and visually ascertain where the flight was, and visually redirect said flights across numerous crowded air corridors, while above cloud level, then visually find and attack the two WTC towers and the Pentagon, while displaying remarkable prowess at doing so and manuevering said aircraft.
Now, it gets really interesting.
Strike said targets without the assitance of any of the normal tools pilots use for guidance. Are you familiar with the term "pattern altitude?". It is the altitude at which a plane must be at when on final approach. The remainder of the approach is consumed with corrections to course, yaw, pitch, rate of airspeed and altitude. Visual markers are present, indicating the course needed to center on the runway. Lights are used at night, long stripes and visual pathways exist during the day. NONE of these exist when striking an unplanned target. Can pilots land without these guides? Sure, if they are IFR, not VFR. Our lads with boxcutters weren't VFR. I know it was a clear day, but we're not talking about driving a car here, but operating a highly complex airframe without proper training.
Now, the hijackers must hit their target. Must not miss, nor change their minds about the importance of this target vs. another they might find, i.e. the Statue of Liberty, etc. Must not be overpowered again by passengers, or the flight crew.

And if ANY of these variables is violated, you and your band of LIHOPpers have three rigged buildings that have no excuse for existing. If one tower is hit and gets CD'd, the other must as well. Subsequent scrutiny would divulge the pre-set charges, and all would be lost.

So, for the record, that is why I largely ignore any discussion of what Condi Rice knew when about the attacks, or who wired Atta how much when, or anything else that smells of LIHOP. LIHOP in this case could be compared to me warning you that I have advance knowledge that I'm about to hit you. No shit.