Claiming that Verizon Communications Incorporated violated privacy laws by turning over phone records to the National Security Agency for a secretive government surveillance program, two public interest lawyers sued the phone carrier for $5 Billion on Friday.  Attorneys Bruce Afran and Carl Mayer filed the lawsuit in federal district court in Manhattan, where Verizon is located. Afran said of the NSA program, "This is the largest and most vast intrusion of civil liberties we've ever seen in the United States."