The State Department’s “no records” claim has a particular problem: Susan Williams.

Williams is not connected to Blas. She is not part of Covenant for Forgotten Warriors or True Signal Media. She has no apparent stake in this case beyond being a visitor to the embassy who witnessed something troubling enough that she felt compelled to intervene.

When she told guard Abdulai Majeed to “stop handling him like that,” she created a problem for any future official narrative. She’s an independent witness whose presence must be documented in visitor logs, whose intervention should appear in any honest incident report, whose account could corroborate or contradict whatever story the embassy tells.

The FOIA request specifically asked for “all records regarding visitor Susan Williams on November 11, 2025, including entry/exit logs, purpose of visit documentation, any statements or complaints she may have made, and any embassy response to her intervention.”

If no records exist about Williams’s visit that day, it means the embassy doesn’t maintain visitor logs, which would itself be a security violation at a U.S. diplomatic facility.

If records exist but weren’t produced, it means the State Department is selectively withholding documentation of a civilian witness to official misconduct.

Either answer is damning.

The Impossibility

Let’s be precise about what the State Department is claiming.

They’re claiming that on November 11, 2025, at the U.S. Embassy in Lomé, Togo:

• Security cameras recorded nothing
• Visitor logs documented no one
• A twenty-minute consultation between a guard and embassy staff left no paper trail
• The Ambassador’s Secretary’s authorization to declare a U.S. citizen “not welcome” was never written down
• The use of physical force against a visitor wasn’t reported
• A civilian’s intervention objecting to that force wasn’t noted
• The threat to bar a citizen from future embassy access wasn’t documented
• Post-incident discussions among embassy staff produced no emails, no memos, no communications

More accurately, they’re claiming that if any of these records ever existed, they’re gone now.

Twenty-two days after being ordered to preserve them.

One day before someone claiming authority from the U.S. Embassy filed a fraudulent death declaration for Kelvin Blas in an apparent attempt to steal his assets.

What Happens Next

Part 3 of this investigation documents an assault witnessed by six people, authorized by embassy leadership, and captured by security systems that U.S. embassies are required to maintain.

The State Department’s response—that no records of any of this exist—is not a denial of wrongdoing. It’s evidence of a coverup.

But the November 11 assault didn’t happen in isolation. It was the culmination of five years of systematic abandonment, discrimination, and obstruction that began long before guard Abdulai Majeed put his hands on Kelvin Blas.

Part 2 of this series documented how Embassy Lomé treated Blas from his first contact in 2020 through the November assault. This includes Ambassador Eric W. Stromayer’s statement that “Americans aren’t Black,” officials’ dismissal of a verified military veteran as a “West African scammer,” and the pattern of denial that preceded the violence.

Part 4 will examine the broader intelligence picture: who benefits from keeping Blas stranded in Togo, the surveillance and monitoring of online criticism about the embassy, and the network of interests that extends beyond State Department failures.

“The coordinated effort to keep him stranded, the monitoring of his advocates, the institutional script that dismissed every plea—all of it was directed at one man: Kelvin Blas, a veteran of the U.S. Army.”

Part 5 will document the human cost: six years of financial devastation, family separation, health impacts, and the psychological toll of systematic abandonment by the government Blas served for thirteen years.

“Six years. No home. No family. No support. This is what the United States government did to Kelvin Blas, a veteran of the U.S. Army.”

Part 6 will address accountability: what laws were violated, which officials failed in their duties, and what specific actions the State Department must take to remedy this case—and prevent it from happening to other veterans.

“The question is not whether the State Department failed. The question is whether anyone will be held accountable for what they did to Kelvin Blas, a veteran of the U.S. Army.”

The embassy that started by saying “Americans aren’t Black” in March 2020, then spent the next five years ignoring him and calling him a scam, had finally made physical contact with Kelvin Blas, a veteran of the U.S. Army.