How could a computerization project go bad unless the organization’s libraries were trashed?

The organization undoubtedly would possess, or would have possessed, libraries of textbooks documenting how development, test, and evaluation, has been successfully performed for numerous previous projects.

Incompetence
sabotage
fraud
Past performance is not indicative of future results.
Or the basic concept may have been flawed from its inception so no amount of tweaking could result in success.
Government may have micromanaged it to death.

None of these need take libraries into account and none require libraries being trashed.