For a period of time the NTSB was sidelined. Recall Pic
Who went in after that 'crash'?…not the NTSB
Intel sent some fab ops to Tel Aviv in the 90's. They were there as early as 1974.
Some of us questioned this at time.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/jobs/locations/israel/sites.html
did not matter who bought it. The shred happened just after the gavel. It's your buy at that moment. You still have to sign the form the runner brings to you but no matter what……IT IS YOURS.
most likely put a mechanism in it triggered by the gavel.