One recent example of the use of the word Cabal came in an accusation by former Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff, Lawrence Wilkerson, who claimed that the Bush administration's foreign policy is run by a "Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal" implying a sinister intent. Currently on the Comedy Central program The Daily Show, the phrase "a global cabal of Jews" is referenced from time to time, as a spoof on antisemitic conspiracy theories. The existence or otherwise of cabals has led to the Internet phenomenon originating on Usenet, "TINC" (standing for There Is No Cabal). In the Computer Game Blood the dark cult of Tchernabog is called the Cabal , and is the protagonist Caleb's main enemy.
Many Masonic conspiracy theories have pictured Freemasonry as an international secret cabal; the propaganda of this vision was satirised in the Sacred Order of the Stonecutters episode of The Simpsons:
"Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do! We do!"