Snowden to deliver alternative Christmas address to Britain

Edward Snowden will deliver the “Royal Christmas Message” to Britain on one of its TV stations Wednesday.

Channel 4 will broadcast Snowden’s pre-recorded address, the station revealed Tuesday. The channel has been televising Christmas messages as an alternative to the queen’s since 1991. 

The National Security Agency leaker is expected to touch on how the documents he uncovered enable people to decide the fate of their governments, Channel 4 said. 

{mosads}Some of Channel 4’s previous presenters include the Rev. Jesse Jackson, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the cartoon characters from “The Simpsons.” 

“If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public,” Snowden said in an interview published Monday night in The Washington Post.

NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander has estimated that Snowden leaked at least 200,000 highly classified government documents to journalists since June. One of Alexander’s deputies suggests Snowden stole as many as 1.7 million documents from the agency.

Snowden has been living in Russia, which granted him asylum in August. 

“In terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,” Snowden said in the Post interview. “I already won.”