lol wow. you're really behind in news...
do you know what NSA is and what it does? several government agencies have already recruited hackers in exchange of prison sentence. and FBI and CIA have regularly scoped out at
DEFCON (the biggest hacker conference/convention once a year) to recruit some hackers.
check out and educate yourself on what America has -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/national/black-budget/
just FYI - the government is not responsible for Sony's security. what happened here is Sony's weak cybersecurity system. and then the government got involved to help assist Sony and that's how we find out that North Korea was behind it.
just because our "success" isn't reported in news doesn't mean we have nothing. that is precisely the whole point of being very secretive about our capability and strength.