The pattern became clear only when viewed in aggregate—and when the same name appeared across months of obstruction.

On December 8, 2025, the State Department’s FOIA office executed a coordinated closure of nine additional FOIA requests related to Kelvin Blas. According to challenge letters filed by advocacy organization Covenant for Forgotten Warriors, all nine carried identical “no records” claims. All were processed by FOIA officer Randall H., acting on behalf of Supervisory Government Information Specialist Ennelle Debrosse.

The same supervisor who had overseen the September 11 response from an unmonitored email address. The same supervisor who had ignored two appeals. Now approving nine simultaneous closures—again using subordinates acting “on behalf of” her authority to create bureaucratic distance from accountability.

The requests targeted different aspects of the case:

• F-2025-30283: Internal Embassy Lomé records justifying denial of assistance
• F-2025-30284: Bureau of Consular Affairs tracking logs and case management records
• F-2026-03427: Communications by former Ambassador Eric W. Stromayer regarding Blas—the same ambassador who, according to Blas, told him in 2020 that “Americans aren’t Black” during a visit to the embassy seeking assistance, then threatened to have security escort him out
• F-2025-30611: Bureau of Consular Affairs policy records for West Africa
• F-2025-30612: Bureau of African Affairs oversight records
• F-2026-03431: Communications about characterizing Blas as a “romance scam”
• F-2026-03432: Additional embassy communications
• F-2026-03435: Additional oversight records
• F-2026-03441: Records related to the November 11, 2025 incident at Embassy Lomé—a FOIA request that should be impossible to deny given the documented evidence

The November 11 incident alone demolishes the State Department’s “no records” claim. At approximately 3:18 PM, Sgt. Blas arrived at the embassy seeking assistance after three days without food. Security guard Abdulai Majeed—a different guard than the regular personnel, raising questions about whether the usual guard was replaced for being “too accommodating”—stopped him outside.

What happened next was witnessed by four civilian visitors and at least one embassy staff member:

The guard went inside for approximately 20 minutes to consult with someone—reportedly “the secretary,” though the exact identity and authority of this person remain unclear. When he returned, he delivered a message: Kelvin was “not welcome” and needed to leave.

When Blas didn’t immediately comply, the guard physically shoved him—a two-handed push to the chest witnessed by multiple people, including visitor Susan Williams, who intervened to tell the guard to “stop handling him like that.” Embassy employee Mr. Agawu Raymond watched the entire incident through a window from inside the building but did not intervene.

The guard then issued a threat: “Next time you won’t even have the chance to come to the premises of the embassy.”

Two days later, Raymond confirmed to a local advocate that Blas “was indeed asked to leave the premises because he had no appointment,” and added that if Kelvin “ever comes to the embassy without holding his American passport in his own hands, he will be arrested.”

The State Department now claims no records exist concerning this incident. But multiple categories of mandatory documentation should exist:

CCTV Footage: Embassy security cameras covering the entrance area during the approximately one-hour-plus incident

Visitor Logs: Documentation of Susan Williams and three other civilian witnesses present during the incident

Security Incident Reports: Mandatory reporting when physical force is used against any individual, especially a U.S. citizen

Internal Communications: The 20-minute consultation between the guard and “the secretary,” including who authorized the denial of access and on what grounds

Communications About “Online Tarnishing”: Two days after the incident, embassy employee Mr. Agawu Raymond told an intermediary that “someone has been tarnishing the image of the embassy on the internet, spreading negative comments all over”—proving embassy staff were monitoring advocacy efforts and discussing them internally. Raymond’s willingness to discuss Kelvin’s case openly with third parties suggests the November 11 incident was a known topic of internal conversation.

Embassy Staff Reports: Any documentation from Mr. Agawu Raymond or other personnel who witnessed the incident

Chain of Command Documentation: Records showing who gave the guard authority to physically remove a U.S. citizen and threaten arrest

The embassy’s defensive posture adds context to the “no records” claim. Rather than addressing systematic abandonment of a veteran, embassy staff focused on managing criticism—then escalated from passive non-assistance to active physical force while knowing they were under public scrutiny. The absence of documentation for such a witnessed, controversial incident suggests either deliberate suppression or wholesale records destruction after preservation demand.

The timing is impossible to ignore. Several of these requests had received urgent demands on December 5—just three days before the mass closure. Those demands threatened OGIS referral and congressional notification if the State Department continued its stonewalling.

The response wasn’t compliance. It was a coordinated shutdown.