Sentence:  WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected,nb.... They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's <WSD>professed</WSD> values and actual foreign policies. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To declare; to assert, affirm. (from 16th c.)