Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30172350-20170617091148/@comment-734582-20170617141436

Ririblob wrote: i know that you dont see a lot but the fact that hiruzen acsept him and hes not seen as evil by the whole village (like with madara who wasnt really evil at the time) implicates that he did do good stuff we just didnt see it Hiruzen wasn't aware of all of Danzo's exploits. He couldn't really kick him out until he openly defied orders in the Uchiha Massacre. Stuff like Danzo's arm, his collaboration with Orochimaru, etc Hiruzen wasn't aware of.