Coonts: Secretary of Terror Stephen Coonts | June 07, 2006 (The following short story by Stephen Coonts is a Military.com exclusive.)The nominee to lead the new Department of Terror was a soft-spoken, balding professor in his fifties with no military experience, yet the pundits and congressional leaders quietly agreed that he was precisely the man for the job. The bill creating the new department had faced fierce opposition from an embittered minority in both houses, but their voices had been ignored by the large majority, who knew only too well the mood of their constituents. Today the Senate was...