Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-30172350-20170617091148/@comment-734582-20170617163740

Ririblob wrote: thats very incorrect hiruzen even let orochimaru escape even though he was the one that did the horrible things Hiruzen acknowledged that he was too soft on Orochimaru due to him being his student. Hiruzen however would never be able to publicly justify Danzo staying alive if he knew he collaborated with Orochimaru. The Uchiha Incident was already covered up anyway, so Danzo walked mostly free, and even then Hiruzen didn't know half the shady stuff Danzo was pulling.