The National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter delivered more than 100 complaints to the State Bar on Friday, demanding disciplinary action against former Department of Defense general counsel William Haynes — now GC at San Ramon, Calif.-based Chevron Corp. — for “championing policies of torture” at Guantanamo Bay.

But no matter how persuasive the legal group’s arguments may be, Haynes won’t be disbarred. He can’t be. Haynes is not a member of California’s State Bar.

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