America’s ambassador to Libya was pleading for extra security personnel two months before his 2012 death at the hands of terrorists, according to a newly released cable. The Hillary Clinton-run State Department turned him down flat.

Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the Sept. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya. The House Select Committee on Benghazi was formed to investigate the attack.

Gowdy said Sunday there was a "total disconnect" between the security needs of U.S. personnel on the ground in Libya and the political priorities of the State Department staff in Washington led by Clinton.

Gowdy described emails from Ambassador Chris Stevens to the State Department requesting more security almost from the moment he arrived in Libya in 2012. The request virtually crossed paths with one Clinton's staff sent to Stevens, asking the new ambassador to read and respond to an email from a Clinton confidant, according to Gowdy. At another point, Clinton aide Victoria Nuland asked Stevens for advice on "public messaging" on the increasingly dangerous situation in the region, Gowdy said.

Stevens was killed in the Sept. 11, 20012, attack in Benghazi.

Stevens "didn't need help with (public relations), and he was asking for more security" that he never received, Gowdy said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

Gowdy refused to release the emails on Sunday. But he said the emails point to "the total disconnect between what was happening in Libya with the escalation in violence."

Democrats said in their report that comments by several GOP members of Congress, including Reps. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,have all been refuted by witnesses interviewed by the Benghazi committee. Paul and Graham are both candidates for president.

The report also takes on claims by GOP presidential candidates Carly Fiorina and Mike Huckabee.

Jamal Ware, a spokesman for Gowdy, said the report was an attempt by Democrats to "knock down straw men" and noted that that claims raised by the report all relate to Clinton.

"Why is not a single one about the four people who were killed or about providing better security in the future?" Ware said. "This is further proof of the Democrats' obsession with covering for Hillary Clinton instead of investigating the Benghazi terrorist attacks."

“If you want a window into Libya and what was happening in the weeks and months before these four were killed, why would you not look at the Ambassador’s emails?”

Gowdy indicated that the emails showed that Stevens began requesting additional security almost from the day he arrived in Libya, on June 7.

“And on one occasion, he even joked in an email ‘maybe we should ask another government to pay for our security upgrades because our government isn’t willing to do it.’ So if you want to know what’s happening in Libya, you have to look at his emails,” Gowdy said.

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